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: Singing from the Well
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Original work: Celestino antes del alba
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780140094442
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9780312252274
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 0312252277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Discovered By Martha Divine In The Backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)

Title: Sky of Drums
Translator(s): W. Nick Hill
Author: Ana Gloria Moya
Original work: Cielo de tambores
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781931896252
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This story of love and revolution takes place during the Argentine struggle for independence (1810-1820) and focuses on the character of the national hero, Manuel Belgrano. Belgrano's story is told through the voices of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana Gloria Moya ; translated by W. Nick Hill.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Translations

Title: Sleeping Dragons
Translator(s): Wendy Burk, M. J. Fièvre
Author: Magela Baudoin
Original work: La composición de la sal
Publisher: Schaffner Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 2018 pp.
ISBN: 9781943156450
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Baudoin's beguiling portrayals of day-to-day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid, and on the verge of falling apart. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Sleepy Stories
Translator(s): Alicia López
Author: Mario Levrero
Original work: Cuentos cansados
Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 28 pp.
ISBN: 9781939810847
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.Illustrations by Diego Bianki.
Literary Genre: Picture books for children, Picture books, Fictional work, Fiction, Juvenile works, Romans, Livres d'images

Title: Smyrna in Flames
Translator(s): Lorna Scott Fox
Author: Homero Aridjis
Original work: Esmirna en llamas
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
City: Simsbury, CT
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 124 pp.
ISBN: 9781942134756
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the written recollections and the memories that haunted the author's father, Nicias Aridjis,-a captain in the Greek army, who returned from the fields of battle to Smyrna,… read more

Title: So I Won't Forget
Translator(s): Emily Maguire
Author: Francisca Suárez Coalla
Original work: Para que no se me olvide
Publisher: Editorial Campana
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780972561174
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Three generations, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian women tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories, retold by Paquita Suarez Coalla. The ferocious Franco dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War,… read more

Title: Soldiers of Salamis
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Soldados de Salamina
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781984899897
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, an unknown militiaman discovered a Nationalist prisoner who had fled a firing squad and taken refuge in the forest. But instead of killing him, the soldier simply turned and walked… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Soldiers of Salamis
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Soldados de Salamina
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 1582343845
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners face a firing squad. Among them is Rafael Sánchez Mazas-writer, fascist, and founder of the Spanish Falange. As the machine guns begin to fire… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Soldiers of Salamis
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Soldados de Salamina
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9780857059192
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, as the remnants of the Republican army retreat north into exile, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are taken out to be shot. Among them is Rafael Sanchez Mazas - writer, fascist… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Solitaire of Love
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: Solitario de amor
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 111 pp.
ISBN: 0822325039
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Cristina Peri Rossi ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction

Title: Some Clouds
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 138 pp.
ISBN: 159058032X
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Some Clouds
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Son of the Murdered Maid
Original work: Hijo de opa!
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780773472112

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780593190135
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Maclehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781529405446
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Southeaster
Translator(s): Jon Lindsay Miles
Author: Haroldo Conti
Original work: Sudeste
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276605
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Southern Seas
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Los mares del Sur
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Space Invaders
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona Fernández
Original work: Space invaders
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 70 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Chilean fiction -- translations into english, Novellas, Translations, Social problem fiction, Political fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, History, Historical fiction