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: La Grande
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: La grande
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 501 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) La Grande--Saer's final novel, which is also a fantastic entry-point to his world--centers around two related stories: that of Gutiérrez, his sudden departure from Argentina thirty years before, and his equally mysterious return… read more

Title: La Vida Doble : A Novel
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Arturo Fontaine Talavera
Original work: La vida doble
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780300176698
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture… read more

Title: Larva : Midsummer Night's Babel
Translator(s): Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Babel de una noche de San Juan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 585 pp.
ISBN: 1564783685
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Las Luces de Septiembre
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: Las luces de septiembre
Publisher: Harper Collins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 317 pp.
ISBN: 9780061724336

Title: Last Evenings on Earth
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 0811216349
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.Contents:                Sensini ; Henry Simon Leprince ; Enrique Martín ; A literary… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Last Night of Carnival and Other Stories
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis Romero
Original work: El momento del unicornio
Publisher: Leaping Dog Press
City: San Jose, CA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 1587750155
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middle class values of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Last Words on Earth
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Javier Serena
Original work: Últimas palabras en la Tierra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830324
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack… read more
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Picaresque fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans picaresques, Romans

Title: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Original work: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9780486414317
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long considered by many scholars to be the first picaresque novel (or the precursor of all such novels), Lazarillo de Tormes made its initial appearance in Spain in the middle of the 16th century, on the heels of an era of novels… read more

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 006075155X
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751555
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Leapfrog : And Other Stories
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Guillermo Rosales
Original work: El juego de la viola
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219419
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes. The… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Short stories

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781590513224
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Portobello
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781846272059
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows four characters through the maze of contemporary Madrid as a combination of a murder, a car crash and secret affair causes their lives to intersect and changes the course of their individual destinies.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Leaving Tabasco
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 0802116841
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, Fantasy fiction

Title: Let Me Tell You a Story : Tales Along the Road to Happiness
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Jorge Bucay
Original work: Déjame que te cuente
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781609451233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A psychoanalyst tries to help a young man find happiness and fulfillment by telling him a story each day in an effort to provide a better understanding of his hopes, dreams, fears, and relationships.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Lies
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Enrique de Hériz
Original work: Mentira
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 0385517947
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An intricately wrought, multilayered novel, "Lies" ranges from the present to deep in the past. Told through two narratives, the stories are both brutal and exciting. Together these stories illuminate the importance of… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Life is a Dream
Translator(s): Gregary Joseph Racz
Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Original work: La vida es sueño
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9780143104827
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Like a Bride / Like a Mother
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 573 pp.
ISBN: 9780826323644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parents' dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Like a Fading Shadow
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Como la sombra que se va
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 312 pp.
ISBN: 9780374126902
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: Like Flies from Afar
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Enrique Ferrari
Original work: Que de lejos parecen moscas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780374239947
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Humour noir