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: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El club Dumas
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780156032834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved… read more
Translator(s): Richard McCallister
Author: Richard McCallister
Original work: El matagallos
Publisher: Casasola Editores
City: Washington D.C.
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9781942369073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The life of a fictional Salvadoran bureaucrat and the havoc, destruction, and misery he causes.
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Viking
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780670840656
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arenas's finest comic achievement is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their… read more
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Original work: Las confidentes
Publisher: Gaon Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780982065723
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Guillermo Parra
Author: Israel Centeno
Original work: El complot
Publisher: Sampsonia Way
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 279 pp.
ISBN: 9781497335103
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Antonio Garrido
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 471 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184364
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9781594201813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780143115502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 429 pp.
ISBN: 9781410411716
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Jose Maria, an architect, is forced to wait out the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at the Spanish Academy in Rome, he learns of an underground Nazi plot to acquire a legendary map that is said to be penned by God depicting the… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Nicolás Giacobone
Original work: El cuaderno tachado
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781501198748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 806 pp.
ISBN: 9781586170462
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Baile de la victoria
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9780393064940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during a heist that is complicated by the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta : translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: The Dark
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Boca de lobo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The narrator remembers a young factory worker, named Delia. Delia is beautiful, but also very poor, and the narrator mentions her "proletarian nature" compared to the narrator's well-educated, middle-class background. He seems… read more
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780732273835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 006008894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated by Stephen A. Lytle.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction