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: 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: Making Waves
Translator(s): John King
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 338 pp.
ISBN: 9780374532963
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Translations of 46 short articles comprising a collection of Vargas Llosa's writings from early 1960s-93, chosen for their diversity of topics. Presented in chronological order with some grouped thematically; political and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

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: Mariflor
Translator(s): Frances Douglas
Author: Concha Espina
Original work: La esfinge maragata
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 425 pp.
ISBN: 9781417959747

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: El 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
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Novels, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs, Romans

Title: Maya's Notebook
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El cuaderno de Maya
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 9780062105639
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
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Novels, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs, Romans

Title: Maya's Notebook
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El cuaderno de Maya
Publisher: Fourth Estate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 400 pp.
ISBN: 9780007482870
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Novels, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs, Romans

Title: Maya's Notebook (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El cuaderno de Maya
Publisher: HarperLuxe
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 558 pp.
ISBN: 9780062253774
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
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Novels, Fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs, Romans

Title: Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Sabina Berman
Original work: La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780805093254
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Karen Nieto passed her earliest years a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family failing tuna cannery in Mazatlan, Mexico. When her mother dies, Karen's long-kept family secret is revealed. What… read more

Title: Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Sabina Berman
Original work: La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780312556136
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Karen Nieto passed her earliest years a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family failing tuna cannery in Mazatlan, Mexico. When her mother dies, Karen's long-kept family secret is revealed. What… read more

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