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: Faces in the Crowd
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: Los ingrávidos
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9781566893558
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction

Title: Family Album : Stories
Translator(s): Dick Cluster, Mary Ellen Fieweger
Author: María Gabriela Alemán Salvador
Original work: Álbum de familia
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780872868823
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires : An Attainable Utopia
Translator(s): David Kurnick
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9781584351344
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Art, Anecdotes, Fiction

Title: Fata Morgana
Translator(s): Eduardo Jiménez
Author: Bruno Estañol
Original work: Fata morgana
Publisher: Goose River Press
City: Waldoboro, ME
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 1597130109

Title: Fever Dream
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: El núcleo del disturbio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184598
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans psychologique

Title: Fever Dream
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: El núcleo del disturbio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184604
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans psychologique

Title: Ficciones
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: Ficciones
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 174 pp.
ISBN: 9780802130303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Science fiction, Translations

Title: Fictions of Totality : The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State
Translator(s): Ryan Fred Long
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Purdue University Press
City: West Lafayette, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781557534873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Fiesta in April : A Prisoner's Memoir
Translator(s): Elizabeth Gamble Miller
Author: Berta Savariego
Original work: Fiesta de abril
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781643784168
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Originally published in Spanish in 1981, Fiesta in April is a story about political prisoners, and the abuses and psychological torture they face. As opposed to using conventional prose, the author weaves dramatic poetry into a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations

Title: Final Exam
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: El examen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 237 pp.
ISBN: 0811214176
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this "allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which [the author] was about to be permanently self-exiled," Cortázar tells the story of Juan and Clara who should be studying for their exam, but… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction

Title: Firefly
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Severo Sarduy
Original work: Cocuyo
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781935744641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying,… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: Flower from Castile Trilogy. Book One. The Alhambra Decree
Translator(s): Lilian Gafni
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Lifeline Pub.
City: La Quinta, CA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 388 pp.
ISBN: 9781463744588
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Flower from Castile Trilogy opens in 1491 during the tumultuous unification of Spain under Catholicism. The battle for the conquest of Granada, which was held by the Islamic Moors for 700 years, empties Spain’s coffers and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Fog
Translator(s): Elena Barcia, Alberto Manguel
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: Niebla
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, Illinois
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 9780810135369
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism's challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction

Title: Fordlandia
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: Eduardo Sguiglia
Original work: Fordlandia: un oscuro paraíso
Publisher: T. Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0312265921
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) While Henry Ford, safe in Detroit, schemes to produce his own rubber for the Ford Motor Company, Horacio is the man who struggles to run Fordlandia, the rubber plantation in the jungles of the Amazon.
Literary Genre: Utopian fiction, Fiction

Title: Foreign Property
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: Enrique Berruga Filloy
Original work: Propiedad ajena
Publisher: Corona Pub.
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 0972063021
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel of love, treachery, and intrigue, Foreign Propery tells of a Mexican family's lost ancestral home and examines the historic relationship between Mexico and Texas. The story is set in San Antonio.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: Forest of the Pygmies
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El bosque de los Pigmeos
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 296 pp.
ISBN: 9780061825101
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.

Title: Forgotten Journey
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867727
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Contents:                 Foreword by… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Four by Four
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cuatro por cuatro
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830140
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; mesa, sara, 1976-; cuatro por cuatro english; four by four; first edition; rochester, ny : open letter, 2020

Title: Fracture
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: Fractura
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 348 pp.
ISBN: 9780374158231
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an aging survivor of the atom bomb confronts his memories.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Freeway : La Movie
Translator(s): Lourdes Molina
Author: Jorge Enrique Lage
Original work: La autopista : the movie
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, Texas
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781646051823
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first-century dystopian Havana, Freeway narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be - a mysterious feat of engineering that slices through… read more
Literary Genre: Dystopian fiction, Fiction, Linked stories, Satirical literature, Cycles de nouvelles