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 Fuentes
Original work: Adán en Edén
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with… read more
Literary Genre: Legal fiction, Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Humorous fiction, Romans judiciaires
Translator(s): Diane Stockwell
Author: Guillermo Ferrara
Original work: El secreto de Adán
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 346 pp.
ISBN: 9781612185613
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A passionate novel that unite the activation of DNA, the mystery of sexual alchemy, the Atlantis, Earth's ascent as forecasted by the 2010 Mayan prophesy, cover-up conspiracies between the secret government and the Catholic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): John King
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Adiós, Hemingway
Publisher: Canongate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781841955414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the… read more
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1888451165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Romans
Translator(s): Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Author: Gustavo Gac-Artigas
Original work: El solar de Ado
Publisher: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
City: Fair Haven, NJ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 1930879326
Translator(s): Charles Jarvis
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: General Books
City: Memphis, TN
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 9781459027978
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Title: Affections
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154799
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: Affections
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Victor C. Simpson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780820478753
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
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
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Publisher: Svenson Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780615955636
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Marcos Aguinis
Original work: La gesta del marrano
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 617 pp.
ISBN: 9781503949263
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Argentine fiction
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
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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): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780811229456
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with… read more
Translator(s): Miranda France
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
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