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): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Voluntad y la fortuna
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 9781400068807
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781931236386
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain's most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): John C. Miller
Author: Fernando Molano Vargas
Original work: Un beso de Dick
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781931948463
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Alejandro López
Original work: La asesina de Lady Di
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 0970765266
Summary/Reviews: () With an afterword by David Link; translation edited by Luis Lemoine.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Guadalupe Rivera Marín
Original work: Diego el Rojo
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, Texas
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 296 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854345
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Charting his childhood before the Mexican Revolution through his years in a Europe immersed in the Bolshevik revolution, this vivid portrait offers a thorough examination of Diego Rivera's creative and intellectual evolution.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Mónica Montañés
Original work: Los distintos
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 79 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855985
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. When fascist dictator Francisco Franco declared victory, he began to persecute everyone who had once opposed him. Spain became a country of secrets, where anyone who was… read more
Literary Genre: Illustrated works, War fiction, Juvenile works, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Ouvrages illustrés
Title: Dinner
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: La cena
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221085
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Zombie fiction, Horror fiction, Paranormal fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 392 pp.
ISBN: 0060006897
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Testifying to the squalor and grit of contemporary Cuba, Pedro Juan Gutierrez's novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living from hand to mouth, half disgusted and half fascinated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 392 pp.
ISBN: 9780060006891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Abilio Estévez
Original work: Los palacios distantes
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781559707008
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of misfits, the trio find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, as well as joy in their growing ability to entertain people with their… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Una familia lejana
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9781564783455
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the cafe, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the… read more
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Estrella distante
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780811215862
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Fictional work, Translations, Romans
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Gonzalo Torné
Original work: Divorcio en el aire
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 301 pp.
ISBN: 9780385354028
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Love stories
Title: Dog Day
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Día de perros
Publisher: Europa editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 1933372141
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this hardboiled fiction for dog lovers and lovers of dog mysteries, detective Petra Delicado and her maladroit sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named "Fright." One murder… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Andrea Abreu
Original work: Panza de burro
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781662601590
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands, this gritty debut is a brutal portrait of girlhood and the story of a devotion that festers into untenable desire over the course of one hot summer.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Ecco, HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 940 pp.
ISBN: 9780060934347
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways.… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): James H. Montgomery
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 846 pp.
ISBN: 9780872209596
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Signet Classic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 1050 pp.
ISBN: 9780451531285
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the classic early 17th century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world. 
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): E. Alec Woolf
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Ann Arbor Media Group
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 495 pp.
ISBN: 9781587263996
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 1330 pp.
ISBN: 9781416599661
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Widely regarded as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's literary masterwork chronicles the exploits of noble knight-errant Don Quixote of la Mancha and his squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel throughout sixteenth-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction