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

Translator(s): John Penuel
Author: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270192
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Chronicle of San Gabriel explores an isolated rural community from the perspective of a city dweller. After his mother's death, Lucho, a teenager, is sent from Lima to stay with his relatives at the San Gabriel hacienda; there… read more
Translator(s): Evelia Romano
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: E. Mellen
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 269 pp.
ISBN: 9780773462700
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperTrophy
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 9780060535032
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 006050918
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780802139795
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms, Cleopatra… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 0802117538
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms,… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Anne Fountain
Author: Nancy Alonso
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9781931896320
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Closed for Repairs is a series of eleven vignettes that depict Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems. Each solution is framed with humor and irony and gives a glimpse of life on the island today. In a clever fashion,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: HarperPerennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9780060932664
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Nelson Rodríguez, Leonardo Agustín Montes
Original work: Los lunes de colores
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780802856166
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a bookmobile visits Luis' neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.Illustrated by Rosana Faría & Carla Tabora
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images
Title: Comemadre
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Roque Larraquy
Original work: La comemadre
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 135 pp.
ISBN (ebook): 9781566895224
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares… read more
Additional Information: Internet resource
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fiction
Title: Comemadre
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Roque Larraquy
Original work: La comemadre
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895156
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fiction
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: El comendador Mendoza
Publisher: Kessinger Publishers
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781120242396
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Commander Mendoza is a novel written by Juan Valera and published in 1893. The book is set in the early 19th century and tells the story of a Spanish naval commander named Don Alonso Mendoza. Mendoza is a proud and honorable… read more
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 601 pp.
ISBN: 9780060732806
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the… read more
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: Las conversaciones
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221108
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous stories, Humorous fiction, Fiction
Title: Cosme
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Félix Fuenmayor
Original work: Cosme
Publisher: Polyglot Press
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781411599956
Translator(s): Barbara Ras
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784841
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Translations
Title: Cousins
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Aurora Venturini
Original work: Las primas
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781593767297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9780735222885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction
Title: Cremation
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Rafael Chirbes
Original work: Crematorio
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 388 pp.
ISBN: 9780811224307
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco… read more
Literary Genre: Novels