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 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

Title: The Dinner Guest
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Gabriela Ybarra
Original work: El comensal
Publisher: Harvill Secker
City: London
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 140 pp.
ISBN: 9781910701980
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) 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… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Discreet Hero
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El héroe discreto
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9781250081629
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
Literary Genre: Tragicomedy, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Discreet Hero
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El héroe discreto
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780374146740
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters… read more
Literary Genre: Tragicomedy, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Divine Boys
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Los divinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781542003735
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As… read more
Literary Genre: Social problem fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Divorce
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El divorcio
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Dog & The Fever : A Perambulatory Novella
Translator(s): William Carlos Williams, Raquel Hélène Rose Hoheb Williams
Author: Pedro Espinosa
Original work: El perro, y la calentura: novela peregrina
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 61 pp.
ISBN: 9780819578044
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The legendary modernist poet William Carlos Williams described this seventeenth-century book as "far more 'modern' than ever Hemingway or even Gertie ever thought of being" and "hot as hell besides." Williams translated this… read more

Title: The Dossier
Translator(s): Mayela Vallejos Ramírez, Edward W. Hood
Author: Linda Berrón
Original work: El expediente
Publisher: Chiringa Press
City: Seguin, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9781610120388
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) An enigmatic and audacious novel with ironic and sarcastic language in which gender power struggles, relations between couples, the seduction of erotic love, and repressed desire are highlighted. Andrés is a forty-year-old… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Linda Berrón ; translation by Mayela Vallejos Ramírez and Edward Waters Hood.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Handbooks, Handbooks and manuals, Novels

Title: The Dream of my Return
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El sueño del retorno
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223430
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Black humor, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans