On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Graciela Lucero-Hammer
Author: Reyna Carranza
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780773421110
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Reyna Carranza's historical novel of dynastic decline in twentieth-century Argentina.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reyna Carranza ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by Graciela Lucero-Hammer ; with a foreword by Fernando Reati.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9781400034925
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in the Spanish colonial era, a doomed love affair takes place between a young girl who is thought to be possessed and the priest who is sent to oversee her exorcism.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Love stories, Fictional work, Novels, Romance fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: De amor y de sombra
Publisher: Dial Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 0553383833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: Ana María Moix
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 1891270230
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ten stories complete this collection of emotionally charged characters connected through a complex interweaving of repeated themes. Their tales include the humorous dynamics of a tour group in Italy; the haunting reality of a man… read more
Author: Emilio Lascano Tegui
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 174 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786043
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of the self-proclaimed 'Viscount' Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right --On Elegance While Sleeping is the macabre novel, part… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Experimental fiction, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Rafael Chirbes
Original work: En la orilla
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 410 pp.
ISBN: 9780811222846
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel "opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Linda J. Craft
Author: Manlio Argueta
Original work: Siglo de o(g)ro
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, MD
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 9780761837862
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women -… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Ena Lucía Portela
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9780292722491
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Zthe vivacious… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 458 pp.
ISBN: 9780060929794
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Probably García Márquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780060883287
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780060531041
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Penguin
City: London
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 422 pp.
ISBN: 9780141184999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 458 pp.
ISBN: 0965018948
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career. The novel tells the story… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: HarperLargePrint
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 541 pp.
ISBN: 9780060750763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Epic fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Daniel Sada
Original work: Una de dos
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Luis Manuel Ruiz
Original work: Sólo una cosa no hay
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0802117309
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nighmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network.
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Paranormal fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Mystery fiction
Title: Op Oloop
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Filloy
Original work: Op oloop
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 251 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784346
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything - from his meals down to his visits to the city brothels - timed to the minute.… read more
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996649
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The ten writers in this volume rose to prominence in the last decade of the twentieth century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba underwent a drastic economic contraction that brought about an explosion of feminine… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: María Gainza
Original work: El nervio óptico
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781948226165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction
Title: Ordesa
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Manuel Vilas
Original work: Ordesa
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780593084045
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It seemed to me the state of my soul was a blurry memory of something that had occurred in a place in northern Spain called Ordesa... A man at a crossroads in midlife considers the place where he's from, where his parents have… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans