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: Beautiful and Dark
Translator(s): Adrienne Mitchell
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: Bella y oscura
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781879960824
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of the childhood, both real and imagined, of a girl who journeys from the loneliness of an orphanage to the poor neighborhood where a singular family takes her in: Grandmother Barbara, a woman with a powerful presence;… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations

Title: Beauty Salon
Translator(s): Kurt Hollander
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Salón de belleza
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 63 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864733
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a… read more
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico

Title: Beauty Salon
Translator(s): David Shook
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Salón de belleza
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 81 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050734
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly… read more
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico

Title: Becoming Marta
Translator(s): Gabriel Amor
Author: Lorea Canales
Original work: Apenas Marta
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781503952614
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time. That is, until her father's wife--the woman who raised her--becomes ill.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Before
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: Antes
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 104 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920282
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Ghost stories

Title: Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis : A Bilingual, Critical Edition of Denzil Romero's Short Stories
Translator(s): Stephen John Clark
Author: Denzil Romero
Original work: Tardía declaración de amor a Séraphine Louis
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, md
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 0761817557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Berlin Atomized
Translator(s): Jack Rockwell
Author: Julia Kornberg
Original work: Atomizado Berlín
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9781662602856
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings--Jewish and downwardly mobile--from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Domestic fiction, Historical fiction

Title: Berta Isla
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Berta Isla
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 480 pp.
ISBN: 9780525521365
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Spy fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Berta Isla
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Berta Isla
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 479 pp.
ISBN: 9780525563129
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson—the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns to Madrid from his studies at… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Spy fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Translator(s): Olivia Sears
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 529 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785152
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: La traición de Rita Hayworth
Publisher: McNally Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 9781946022424
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of Toto, a boy growing up in a small town in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. Toto is obsessed with the movies he sees with his mother, and the book focuses on the influence popular culture has on ordinary life.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: La traición de Rita Hayworth
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785305
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Between Two Silences = Entre Dos Silencios
Translator(s): Judith Kerman
Author: Hilma Contreras
Original work: Entre dos silencios
Publisher: Mayapple Press
City: Woodstock, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 9781936419319
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and… read more

Title: Beyond
Translator(s): Elisa Taber
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Original work: Mas allá
Publisher: Sublunary Editions
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781955190374
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As he neared the end of his troubled life, Horacio Quiroga penned a collection of stories that straddle thresholds, the ones between life and death, between sanity and madness, between man and nature. Partly set in the… read more

Title: Beyond the border: a new age in Latin American women's fiction
Translator(s): Nora Erro-Peralta, Caridad Silva
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University Press of Florida
City: Gainesville, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 0813017858
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Beyond the Islands
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Alicia Yánez Cossío
Original work: Más allá de las islas
Publisher: UNO Press
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 221 pp.
ISBN: 9781608010431
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Beyond the Island recreates the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Beyond the Silence
Translator(s): Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Author: Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Original work: El silencio del ayer
Publisher: Alexandria Library Publishing House
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781518733833
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The universal dilemma between truth and survival pulsates in the plot that takes place at the end of the 1980s in the city of Havana. Boris, a young lieutenant in Cuban counter-intelligence meets Sebastián, who is bringing as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Bezoar : And Other Unsettling Stories
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: Pétalos y otras historias incómodas
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781609809584
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human… read more

Title: Bird House
Translator(s): Blanca Gómez
Author: Blanca Gómez
Original work: Un pájaro en casa
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Literary Genre: Juvenile works

Title: Birds of Fire : A Filipino War Novel
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Ignacio López-Calvo
Author: Jesús Balmori
Original work: Los pájaros de fuego : novela Filipina de la guerra
Publisher: Dulzorada Press
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 9781953377111
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Written in secrecy during the terrible final years of World War II (1942 - 1945), Birds of Fire, A Filipino War Novel is an intense testimony to the courage of the human spirit facing the cruelty of military occupation. Jesus… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History, War fiction