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

Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Original work: El señor presidente
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780143136385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Political fiction
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 367 pp.
ISBN: 9781432566944
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Satirical literature
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Mario Bellatin
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050291
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu's teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she publishes a firm rebuttal to his curation. Instead of… read more
Literary Genre: Allegories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Facsímil
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780143109198
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Named one of the best books of the summer by the Wall Street Journal, Elle, the Huffington Post and Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Fiction, Experimental fiction
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 91 pp.
ISBN: 9781609804183
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nine short stories that reveal the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The stories explore the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Why me?" asks Pepe Carvalho. "Because you're an ex-communist. Because you know who we are, what we're like, where we come from, and where we're going." At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room… read more
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Carlos Pintado
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926451
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Intimate conversations, soliloquies, patches of burned diaries, existential definitions of beauty, pain, or personal discovery come together in Music for Bamboo Strings. A subtle tapestry of music imbues the story and… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Mis documentos
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781940450520
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Mis documentos
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780143136521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language" (NPR)-now reissued by Penguin… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations
Translator(s): Alicia Bralove
Author: Alister Ramírez Márquez
Publisher: Forest Woods Media
City: Montclair, NJ
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 165 pp.
ISBN: 9780938572510
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) My Emerald Green Dress is the riveting account of a woman's thorny yet oddly rewarding life. You will become a part of her emotional journey from the abuse she suffers as an adolescent through her maturation as a self-assured… read more
Translator(s): Toshiya Kamei
Author: Claudia Apablaza
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Moorpark, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 140 pp.
ISBN: 9781790920563
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Patricio Pron
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9780307745422
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth--not only about his father but an entire generation--comes to light, the… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, History, Autobiographical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Patricio Pron
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9780307700681
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young writer returns to his native Argentina to uncover a mystery surrounding his dying father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man, which he ties to the country's dark political past and his family's underground… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, History, Autobiographical fiction, Romans
Title: My Fault
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Mercedes Ron
Original work: Culpa mía
Publisher: Bloom Books
City: Naperville, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 407 pp.
ISBN: 9781728290737
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781944211776
Summary/Reviews: () My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of… read more
Literary Genre: Cuban fiction
Translator(s): Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
Author: Nicolás Ferraro
Original work: Ámbar
Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781641295154
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Novels, Thrillers (fiction)
Translator(s): Catherine Jagoe
Author: Elsa Osorio
Original work: A veinte años, Luz
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 1582341826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An international bestseller about the blackest period of Argentinean history. Luz, a twenty-year-old Argentinean, is on vacation in Madrid with her husband and newborn son. But Luz has a secret mission-to find her real father.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Mi barrio
Publisher: Tapioca Stories
City: Huntington, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 25 pp.
ISBN: 9781734783957
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Every morning, Ms. Marta goes out to check that the world is how it should be: her friends sitting on a terrace playing cards, the beach where it always is, children playing in the playground.Illustrated by Ana Penyas.  
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works
Translator(s): Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Original work: My school = Mi escuela
Publisher: Me+Mi Pub.
City: Wheaton, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 18 pp.
ISBN: 9781931398237
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Introduces English and Spanish vocabulary for the people and items in a school.
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Pedro Lemebel
Original work: Tengo miedo torero
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 0802117686
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans