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): Asa Zatz
Author: Arturo Arias
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9780915306893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book… read more
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: Después del invierno
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895255
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Romans
Translator(s): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: José Asunción Silva
Original work: De sobremesa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780292709799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jose Asuncion Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siecle novels and… read more
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060693
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Nancy K. Muñoz
Author: Braulio Muñoz
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780816526796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a series of tales fashioned as an old fisherman's reflections, Peruvian-American author and sociologist Muñoz ("The Peruvian Notebooks") offers an elegiac lament for a disappearing way of life along Peru's Pacific coast.
Literary Genre: Sea stories, Fiction, General info: awards: international latino book award, 2009 - best novel - historical fiction - english other format available: online version:; muñoz, braulio,, 1946-; alejandro y los pescadores de tancay english; alejandro and the fishermen of tancay; tucson : university of arizona press, ©2008
Translator(s): Alice Whitmore
Author: Mariana Dimópulos
Original work: Cada despedida
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492150
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780810119543
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Title: All Souls
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Todas las almas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0811214532
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decollettage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Alice Kellen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
City: Naperville, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 435 pp.
ISBN: 9781728283760
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores Redondo
Original work: Todo esto te daré
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9781503902541
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock, but it won't be the last. He's now arrived in Galicia where Álvaro died. It's where… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Thrillers (fiction)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 749 pp.
ISBN: 9780813192321
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was likely written during the early fourteenth century, with the first known… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 748 pp.
ISBN: 9780813159928
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 685 pp.
ISBN: 9780813190341
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. A bestseller in its day, it inspired a number of sequels and imitators,… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Title: Amalia
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: José Mármol
Original work: Amalia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: Oxford
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 664 pp.
ISBN: 0195122763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo… read more
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Betina González
Original work: América alucinada
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781250621283
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the same time, a group of protesters decides to live… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Author: Eduardo González Viaña
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 1558854479
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) No one knows how Porfirio entered the United States. Some say he traveled on the winds of a sandstorm, others say he walked over the hills, and still others say he flew. In the first story of this collection, Porfiro, the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan de Recacoechea
Original work: American visa
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354200
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to… read more
Literary Genre: Marriage -- fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cara de pan
Publisher: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles
Title: Amulet
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Amuleto
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans