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: Lucas Guevara
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Alirio Díaz Guerra
Original work: Lucas Guevara
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781558853904
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the English translation of Lucas Guevara, the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States, Written by Colombian emigre Alirio Diaz Guerra and originally published in the United States in 1914, the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos
Translator(s): Derek White
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Calamari Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 44 pp.
ISBN: 9780974605395
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Macho Camacho's Beat
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1564782581
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) One day in the life of "Senator Vicente Reinosa, a crooked politician stuck in a gargantuan traffic jam; his neurotic, artistocratic wife; their son Benny, a fascist who is quite literally in love with his Ferrari;… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luis Rafael Sánchez ; translated with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa.
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Fiction

Title: Mad Toy
Translator(s): Michele McKay Aynesworth
Author: Roberto Arlt
Original work: El juguete rabioso
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 0822329115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Silvio Astier falls into a life of petty crime as he grows up in 1920s Buenos Aires. 
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Novela argentina -- siglo xx -- traducciones al inglés, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Madani's Best Game
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Fran Pintadera
Original work: La mejor jugada de madani
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 40 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855978
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A neighborhood soccer star has a secret plan for his team's big game--a plan even more impressive than his bicycle kicks.Illustrated by Raquel Catalina
Literary Genre: Juvenile works

Title: Magdalena : A Fable of Immortality
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765222
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Alchemist and visionary, the María Magdalena of this novel by Mexican author Beatriz Escalante searches for the philosopher's stone and the secret of eternal life on a long metamorphic pilgrimage through medieval Europe. From a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Makbara
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785060
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo―widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer―again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction

Title: Malambo
Translator(s): Emmanuel Harris
Author: Lucía Charún-Illescas
Original work: Malambo
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 230 pp.
ISBN: 0974888109
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) At the heart of the novel is Tomason, an African artist living along the Rimac, who paints religious murals for the church and his colonial masters. The intermingling of his Yoruba heritage with his life in a Spanish colony… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans

Title: Malinche
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780743290357
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Malinalli, a member of a tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she--like so many--believes that the conquistador is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories

Title: Malinche
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Jordi Castells
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 074329033
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortez and Malinalli, his Indian intepreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her role as a mediator between two very different languages and… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories

Title: Malinche (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Wheeler Pub.
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9781597222488
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The internationally bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" returns with this extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs, between the conquistador Cortez and his… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories

Title: Manhattan Tropics : Trópico en Manhattan
Translator(s): J. Bret Maney
Author: Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Original work: Trópico en Manhattan
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 403 pp.
ISBN: 9781518505768
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles

Title: Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea
Translator(s): Michael B. Miller
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Original work: Margarita, está linda la mar
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 1880684845
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramírez encompasses, in a complete metaphor of reality and legend, the entire history of his country. The narrative moves along paths fifty years apart, which inevitably converge. The… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Sergio Ramírez ; translated by Michael B. Miller.

Title: Margarita, How Beautiful The Sea
Translator(s): Michael B. Miller
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Original work: Margarita, está linda la mar
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 9781931896412
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) 1907. Leon, Nicaragua. During a tribute which he delivers during his triumphal return to his native city, Ruben Dario writes on the fan of a little girl one of his most famous poems, "Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea." 1956.… read more

Title: María : A South American Romance
Author: Jorge Isaacs
Publisher: Wildside Press
City: LaVergne, TN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9781434486158
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This classic 19th-century Colombian novel tells the poignant story of unrequited love between Efraín and María, set against the backdrop of the lush Valle del Cauca. Blending elements of romanticism and local color, the novel… read more

Title: Marks of Identity
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784537
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This luxurious translation of a Spanish tour de force, about the return of an exile to his native Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Translations

Title: Martín Rivas
Translator(s): Tess O'Dwyer
Author: Alberto Blest Gana
Original work: Martín Rivas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 389 pp.
ISBN: 0195107136
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ambitious young man from the northern mining region of Chile, is entrusted by his late father to the household of a wealthy and influential member of the Santiago elite. While living there, he… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Love stories, Bildungsromane

Title: Maya's Notebook
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Cuaderno de Maya
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 9780062105622
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Novels, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs, Romans

Title: Meditations on Quixote
Author: José Ortega y Gasset
Original work: Meditaciones del Quijote
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana, IL
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 0252068955
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of "essays in intellectual love," Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given… read more
Additional Information: Introduction and notes by Julián Marías.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 115 pp.
ISBN: 9781400044603
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel.
Literary Genre: Miscellaneous fiction, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction