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: A thousand forests in one acorn: an anthology of Spanish-language fiction
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 717 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824917
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A tremendous introduction to twenty-eight of the most influential Spanish-language authors of the twentieth century, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn combines interviews with these authors—about their influences… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: A Translation of Antonio García Gutiérrez's "El Trovador" (The Troubadour)
Translator(s): Robert G. Trimble
Author: Antonio García Gutiérrez
Original work: El trovador
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0773461701
Literary Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc, Fiction, History

Title: A Translation of Don Juan Valera's Morsamor
Translator(s): Robert G. Trimble
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Morsamor
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 254 pp.
ISBN: 9780773454323
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Translated into English, the novel Morsamor is set in 1521. Morsamor is a young Spaniard whose name is a combination of the Latin words for Death and Love. He is accompanied by a lay brother serving him as squire, and who is… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: A Translation of Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch's The Lovers of Teruel
Translator(s): Robert G. Trimble
Author: Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
Original work: Amantes de Teruel
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 0773466223
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Accompanied by an introduction to the text that situates it historically, this volume offers a translation of what is perhaps the most picturesque and tragic of all of the plays of the Spanish Romantic theatre.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Criticism, interpretation, etc, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: A Trip to Salto = Un Viaje a Salto
Translator(s): Stephanie Stewart
Author: Circe Maia
Original work: Un viaje a Salto
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 0967880874
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mother and daughter try desperately to get to Salto, Uruguay, where their husband and father is being taken under military guard as a political prisoner, and the mother writes in her diary between 1972 and 1974.Postscript by… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish language materials, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: A True Story : A Cuban in New York
Translator(s): Regina Galasso
Author: Miguel Barnet
Original work: La vida real
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781934978351
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Miguel Barnet's A True Story is based on the life of Julián Mesa, a Cuban living in New York City. The novel spans the years between the 1930s to the 1980s as the protagonist moves from Cuba to the US. Throughout the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: A Tuesday Like Today
Translator(s): Clare E. Sullivan
Author: Cecilia Urbina
Original work: Un martes como hoy
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780916727475
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Margara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common--their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: A Universal History of Iniquity
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: Historia universal de la infamia
Publisher: Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 0142437891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Black humor, Fiction, Humour noir, Nouvelles

Title: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes
Publisher: Susan Barnes : Washington University
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 21 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1955 in the journal Casa de las Américas. The story is a magical-realist allegory that follows the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Illustrated books, Illustrated works, Magic realist fiction, Nouvelles, Ouvrages illustrés

Title: A Week in October
Translator(s): Marina Harss
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Original work: Una semana de octubre
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512883
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Love stories

Title: A Whistler in the Nightworld : Short Fiction from the Latin Americas
Translator(s): Thomas Colchie
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 410 pp.
ISBN: 9780452283589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.Contents:                 Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: A Working Woman
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Elvira Navarro
Original work: La trabajadora
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9781931883658
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: A World for Julius
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Original work: Un mundo para Julius
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0299196747
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his… read more

Title: Abyss
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Pilar Quintana
Original work: Los abismos
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781642861228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: Adios Hemingway
Translator(s): John King
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Adiós, Hemingway
Publisher: Canongate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781841955414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the… read more

Title: Adios Muchachos
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1888451165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Romans

Title: Ado's Plot of Land
Translator(s): Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Author: Gustavo Gac-Artigas
Original work: El solar de Ado
Publisher: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
City: Fair Haven, NJ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 1930879326

Title: Affections
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154799
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: African Shore
Translator(s): Jeffrey Gray
Author: Rosa Rodrigo Rey
Original work: Orilla Africana
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780300199093
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V.S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today's Guatemalan literary world… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated by Jeffrey Gray.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Afro-Puerto Ricans in the Short Story : An Anthology
Translator(s): Victor C. Simpson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780820478753
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english