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): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 0811214826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms ..." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950758
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Marta, the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair, suddenly dies in his arms, Víctor first considers walking away but is unable to resist delving into Marta's dark secrets.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0486434303
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Trafalgar
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Trafalgar
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9781618730336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Science fiction
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Osvaldo Fernández Gordián
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 1450229077
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 564 pp.
ISBN: 9780374119393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: El viajero del siglo
Publisher: Pushkin
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 578 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Title: Tristana
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Tristana
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177655
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly… read more
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Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Peter Lownds
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: Animal tropical
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0786714999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 0312205384
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780312270971
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: El delirio de Turing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780618541393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans, General info: other format available: online version:; paz soldán, edmundo, 1967-; delirio de turing english; turing's delirium; boston : houghton mifflin, 2006
Author: Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Original work: Tirano Banderas
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781590174982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Tirana memoria
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219174
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, spanish, Black humor, Fiction, History, Black humor (literature), Historical fiction, Humour noir
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780292737778
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Rosario Sanmiguel
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 1558855149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Conrado Espinoza
Original work: El sol de Texas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854802
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Gabriela Wiener
Original work: Huaco retrato
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Usmaíl
Translator(s): Charlie Connelly
Author: Pedro Juan Soto
Original work: Usmaíl
Publisher: Sombrero Pub.
City: St. John, US Virgin Islands
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780964122086
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a… read more
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0252026551
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans