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: Cathedral of the Sea
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Original work: La catedral del mar
Publisher: Dutton
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 611 pp.
ISBN: 9780525950486
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.

Title: Cathedral of the Sea
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Original work: La catedral del mar
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 611 pp.
ISBN: 0525950486

Title: Cecilia Valdés
Translator(s): Sibylle Brouwers-Fischer
Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Original work: Cecilia Valdés
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 500 pp.
ISBN: 9780195143942
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and… read more

Title: Celestina
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Fernando de Rojas
Original work: La Celestina
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780143106098
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the… read more

Title: Celia in the Revolution
Translator(s): Michael Ugarte
Author: Elena Fortún
Original work: Celia en la revolución
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9781736189368
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Celia in the Revolution is the last in a series of young adult novels written by Encarnación Aragoneses, known by the pen name Elena Fortún, one of the most prolific and popular Spanish… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War fiction, Novels

Title: Cervantes's Eight Interludes
Translator(s): Charles Patterson
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos : nunca representados
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
City: Milwaukee, WI
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 9781495013034
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These eight interludes, which Cervantes published in 1615 but never saw performed, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and… read more

Title: Changó, Decolonizing the African Diaspora
Translator(s): Jonathan Tittler
Author: Manuel Zapata Olivella
Original work: Changó, el gran putas
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 395 pp.
ISBN: 9780367756543
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch. The centennial anniversary release of this… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: Changó, The Biggest Badass
Translator(s): Jonathan Tittler
Author: Manuel Zapata Olivella
Original work: Changó, el gran putas
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9780896726734
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Translated into English and spanning three continents, this epic novel of the African Diaspora in the Americas recounts over five centuries of displacement and servitude. Employing multiple narrative voices and encompassing all… read more
Literary Genre: Epic fiction, Fiction, Romans épiques

Title: Chaos : A Fable
Translator(s): Jeffrey Gray
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: Fábula asiática
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781542090353
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Science fiction

Title: Child's Play
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Carmen Posadas
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780061583636
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A haunting psychological thriller involving cruelty, secrets, and murder at an exclusive private school.
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Spanish fiction

Title: Child's Play
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson
Author: Carmen Posadas
Original work: Juego de niños
Publisher: Alma
City: Richmond
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780061583629
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Luisa Davila is an established Spanish mystery writer who decides that her detective's next case will involve the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. However, following the death of one of her daughter's… read more

Title: Childish Literature
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Literatura infantil
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9780143138082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Poetry, Essays

Title: Children of the Stars
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Los niños de la estrella amarilla
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780785234791
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Religious fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Children of the Stars (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Los niños de la estrella amarilla
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9781643586311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Religious fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Chile: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513139
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traverse Chile's literary and geographic landscape with some of its best writers. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Chilean Poet
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Poeta chileno
Publisher: Granta Books
City: London
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 390 pp.
ISBN: 9781783782888
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate the merits of Teillier and Millan (but never Neruda - beyond the pale). Then, nine years after their… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: Chilean Poet
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Poeta chileno
Publisher: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780593492505
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons,… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: Chilean Poet
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Poeta chileno
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780143109204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels

Title: Chinese Checkers : Three Fictions
Translator(s): Cooper Esteban
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Ravenna Press
City: Edmonds, WA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780977616299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A fascinating collection of three strange and thought-provoking short stories by acclaimed and prize-winning Spanish-language Mexican writer, Mario Bellatin: Chinese Checkers; Hero Dogs; and My Skin Luminous, stories describing… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Christ Versus Arizona
Translator(s): Martin Sokolinsky
Author: Camilo José Cela
Original work: Cristo versus Arizona
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 274 pp.
ISBN: 9781564783417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction