On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: Asleep in the Sun
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: Dormir al sol
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 1590170954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At… read more
Literary Genre: Allegories, Fiction, Allegories

Title: August
Translator(s): Jennifer Croft
Author: Romina Paula
Original work: Agosto
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Bildungsromans

Title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La tía Julia y el escribidor
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 374 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Humorous fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction

Title: Aunt Tula = La Tía Tula
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: La tía Tula
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 0486445062
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In La tía Tula, Unamuno paints a memorable portrait of the indomitable Aunt Tula, who fulfills her maternal desires on her own terms.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Aura (Bilingual Edition)
Translator(s): Lysander Kemp
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Aura
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780374511715
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young scholar, employed by an aged widow to edit her husband's memoirs, falls in love with her niece in this novella of horror and beauty. 

Title: Auschwitz Lullaby
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Canción de cuna de Auschwitz
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 287 pp.
ISBN: 9781643581576
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought… read more
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Literary Genre: Large type books, Fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Auschwitz lullaby
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Canción de cuna de Auschwitz
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, Tennessee
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9780785219958
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict… read more
Literary Genre: Large type books, Fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Austral
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Original work: Austral
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780374606657
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Bad Girls
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Camila Sosa Villada
Original work: Las malas
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781635422023
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts. Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but… read more

Title: Bad Habit
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Alana Portero
Original work: La mala costumbre
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9780063336124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
Literary Genre: Lgbtqia+ fiction, History, Queer fiction, Transgender fiction, Novels, Fiction

Title: Bad Handwriting
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Mala letra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 168 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830553
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Fiction

Title: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mala índole
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218580
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But… read more

Title: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 57 pp.
ISBN: 0811218589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Barcelona Noir
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781936070954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains fourteen short crime stories set in Barcelona, including selections by Santiago Roncagliolo, Imma Monso, Valerie Miles, and others.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Bariloche
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: Bariloche
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830621
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through… read more

Title: Bartleby & Co.
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811215911
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters from literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: Bartleby & Co.
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811216985
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: Bartolomé de las Casa : Chronicle of a Dream
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: José Luis Olaizola
Original work: Bartolomé de las Casas, crónica de un sueño
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781621642848
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Bartolomé de Las Casas is one of the most controversial figures in the Spanish colonization of America. For some, because of his defense of the natives, he is the apostle to the Indians; for others, because of his denunciation… read more

Title: Battles in the Desert
Translator(s): Katherine Silver, Sophie Hughes
Author: José Emilio Pacheco
Original work: Las batallas en el desierto
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 80 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230957
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of… read more

Title: Beach Birds
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Severo Sarduy
Original work: Pajaros de la playa
Publisher: Otis Books/Seismicity Editions
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780975592489