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: The Dancer and the Thief
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

Title: The Dark Bride
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

Title: The Dark Bride
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

Title: The Daughter's Tale
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Washington Square Press/Atria
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Daughter's Tale
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Daughter's Tale (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 391 pp.
ISBN: 9781643584836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Days of the Deer
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Liliana Bodoc
Original work: Los días del venado
Publisher: Corvus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9781848870277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross the Yentru Sea. All our predictions and sacred books clearly say the same thing. The rest is all shadows. Shadows that prevent us from… read more

Title: The Death of Artemio Cruz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 307 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A powerful Mexican newspaper owner recalls episodes of his earlier life as he lies confined to his bed, gravely ill.

Title: The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Original work: La gallina degollada y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0299198340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Short story genre

Title: The Desert and Its Seed
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Jorge Barón Biza
Original work: El desierto y su semilla
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9780811225809
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia's face, but… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Devil of the Provinces
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis
Author: Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Original work: El diablo de las provincias
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896771
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Devil's Country
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Perla Suez
Original work: El país del diablo
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680335
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, fourteen year-old girl Lum Hué, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother and sole survivor of the massacre of her village in 1879 by white troops… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Devil's Nose
Translator(s): Ingrid Watson Miller, Margaret Lindsay Morris
Author: Luz Argentina Chiriboga
Original work: La nariz del diablo
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781634176903
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the nineteenth century, thousands of Jamaicans journeyed to Ecuador to fulfill their dreams for their future. But, to secure this dream, they had to accomplish their goal, which was to build President Eloy Alfaro's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Dialogue of the Dogs
Translator(s): David Kipen
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El coloquio de los perros
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781933633046
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Ever since I could chase a bone, I've longed to talk ..." The first talking-dog story in Western literature--from the writer generally acknowledged, alongside William Shakespeare, as the founding father of modern literature, no… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Diaries of Emilio Renzi : A Day in the Life
Translator(s): Robert Croll
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Un día en la vida
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 357 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060471
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, "The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life" is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and… read more

Title: The Diaries of Emilio Renzi : The Happy Years
Translator(s): Robert Croll
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Los años felices
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 499 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975--running a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Diary fiction, Fiction

Title: The Diary of Andres Fava
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: Diario de Andrés Fava
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0974968064
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Andrés Fava is a character from Cortázar's Final Exam, and his diary originally formed part of that novel, written in 1950 but not published, for political reasons, until after the author's death. At some stage Cortázar decided… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs

Title: The Diary of José Toledo : A Translation and Critical Edition
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Miguel Barbachano Ponce
Original work: El diario de José Toledo
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 1889431982
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Dinner Guest
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Gabriela Ybarra
Original work: El comensal
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492242
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events -- the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction