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): Lily Meyer
Author: Claudia Ulloa Donoso
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926406
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and… read more
Translator(s): Michael Bazzett
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2024
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9781571311610
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K'iche' Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Imminence
Translator(s): Alice Whitmore
Author: Mariana Dimópulos
Original work: Pendiente
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492556
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Set over the course of an… read more
Translator(s): Peter Kahn
Author: Tununa Mercado
Original work: En estado de memoria
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9780803231573
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity… read more
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: En ausencia de Blanca
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512531
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 0312421303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.… read more
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218559
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A compilation of Lorca's poetry and prose, emphasizing Lorca's notion of the duende, the "earth spirit of irrationality and death."Contents:                 Deep song -- Note on the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Original work: En busca de Klingsor
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 414 pp.
ISBN: 9780743201186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
Translator(s): Olivia Maciel
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "In Spite of teh Dark Silence," presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 127 pp.
ISBN: 0872863743
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In these renegade stories, set in Cuba during the hard times following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people go to work only to find that their jobs no longer exist. They joke and tell stories from the past, live aimlessly… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Carla Guelfenbein
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 407 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518700
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. She has had a profound effect on those around her: Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his… read more
Literary Genre: Jewish fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 150117813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Farmington Hills, Mich
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 471 pp.
ISBN: 9781432844363
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small… read more
Additional Information: (Large Print Edition)
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9781501178146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar in Brooklyn, his Chilean tenant, and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore the difficulties of immigrants and… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Large Print Press
City: Farmington Hills, MI
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 469 pp.
ISBN: 9781432844370
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Noche de los tiempos
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 641 pp.
ISBN: 9780547547848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Muñoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): John Hassett
Author: Poli Délano
Original work: En este lugar sagrado
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996595
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Canales, raised in the countryside, has come to Santiago to attend university and seek his fortune. He soon falls into a pattern of partying. After he unintentionally kills a man following a session of drinking, he flees… read more
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: María Sonia Cristoff
Original work: Inclúyanme afuera
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 131 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: London
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780007257393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Inés del alma mía
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9780061161544
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans