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: Friction
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz Kanan
Original work: Fricción
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 419 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785497
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A dazzling literary card game: an investigation into how and why we fall into or out of love--with a person or a book.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Friends of Mine
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Ángela Pradelli
Original work: Amigas mías
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270505
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel pays homage to the solidarity of women's friendship and to the importance of the rituals that demarcate our lives. The four principal characters, lifelong friends, are not famous, or exceptionally beautiful, or… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Frigid Tales
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Pedro de Jesús
Original work: Cuentos frígidos
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 0872863999
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Playing opportunely with realism and fiction, the sensational young Cuban writer Pedro de Jesus interlinks six stories in an inventive narrative of psychological darkness and sexual intricacy. In this tour de force of… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Gay fiction, Erotic fiction, Gay erotic fiction, Nouvelles

Title: From Afar Forever
Translator(s): Elisabeth Jezierski
Author: Nicolás Mihovilovic R.
Original work: Desde lejos para siempre
Publisher: Mirta Mihovilović
City: Chapel Hill, NC
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9780615256122

Title: From the Shadows
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn
Author: Juan José Millás García
Original work: Desde la sombra
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781942658665
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Frontera Dreams
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780938317586
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The sweetheart of Hector Belascoaran Shayne's adolescence - the same one who's become a famous Mexican movie star - has disappeared into the magical reality of the U.S./Mexico border. Hector wanders la frontera looking for her.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Galatea : A Pastoral Romance
Translator(s): Gordon Willoughby James Gyll
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Los seis libros de Galatea
Publisher: Nabu Press
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 349 pp.
ISBN: 9781149199855
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were… read more

Title: Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
Translator(s): Alma Flor Ada
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Original work: Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
ISBN: 9780613443890
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. Illustrated by Simón Silva.

Title: General Escobar's War
Author: José Luis Olaizola
Original work: La guerra del general Escobar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9781621640523
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Appearing here in English translation for the first time, General Escobar's War won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction. The historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest-… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: Generation Zero : An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction
Translator(s): Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Sampsonia Way Magazine
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781494221799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 Prologue / by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo -- The sky over Havana / by Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz -- Graphomania / by Lien Carrazana Lau -- Hating summer / by… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Gesell Dome
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Original work: Cámara Gesell
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 616 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953380
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize--Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Ghosts
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Los fantasmas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217422
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place… read more
Literary Genre: Ghost stories, Fiction, Histoires de fantômes

Title: Glaxo
Translator(s): Samuel Rutter
Author: Hernán Ronsino
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 91 pp.
ISBN: 9781612195674
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time. In a derelict town in the Argentine pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: God Was Afraid
Translator(s): D. W. Jefferson
Author: Vanessa Núñez Handal
Original work: Dios tenía miedo
Publisher: Peace Corps Writers
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 131 pp.
ISBN: 9781935925897
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Natalia hears the roar of the helicopter gunships every night. She sees the flash as their missiles explode. What if they make a mistake and fire at our house? Why are they killing so many priests, even Archbishop Romero? What… read more

Title: God's Diary
Translator(s): Alvaro de Silva
Author: Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa
Original work: Diario del padre eterno
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 76 pp.
ISBN: 9780802839688
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning poet Peñalosa shares with us the diary of God, a daily record of the Eternal Father's hopes, plans and workings in the world. Simple yet masterful, childlike yet profound, these poetic diary entries present the… read more

Title: God's Spy
Translator(s): James Graham
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Espía de Dios
Publisher: Dutton
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780525949947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the aftermath of the pope's death, police inspector Paola Dicanti is called in to investigate the brutal murders of two cardinals, assisted by American priest and former Army intelligence officer Anthony Fowler.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Golpes Bajos : Instantáneas = Low Blows : Snapshots
Original work: Golpes bajos : (instantáneas)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780299216009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and… read more

Title: Good Hair, Bad Hair
Translator(s): Lisa Calvin
Author: Carmen L. Montañez
Original work: Pelo bueno, pelo malo
Publisher: Xlibris Corp.
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9781469163604
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Good Offices
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
Author: Evelio Rosero
Original work: Almuerzos
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom.
Literary Genre: Satirical literature, Satire, Fiction

Title: Grandma's Santo on its Head : Stories of Days Gone by in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico = El Santo Patas Arriba de Mi Abuelita : Cuentos de Días Gloriosos en Pueblitos Hispanos de Nuevo México
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Nasario García
Original work: Grandma's santo on its head stories of days gone by in Hispanic villages of New Mexico = El santo patas arriba de mi abuelita
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9780826353283
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.