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: Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780252073557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans

Title: Valfierno: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín Caparrós
Original work: Valfierno
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297936
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who became one of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Varamo
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Varamo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217415
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Variations on the Body
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: María Ospina Pizano
Original work: Azares del cuerpo
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Violeta
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Violeta
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780593496206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Violeta (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Violeta
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 446 pp.
ISBN: 9780593558713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Vlad
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Vlad
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asunción Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Occult fiction, Suspense fiction, Horror fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Paranormal fiction, Vampire fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: Voltaire's Calligrapher
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Pablo de Santis
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780061479885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As calligrapher for the great Voltaire, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders-- and finds himself in the middle of a secret battle between the malevolent remnants of the all-but-dead Dark Ages and the progressive elements of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo de Santis ; translated by Lisa Carter.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Voyage Along the Horizon
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Travesía del horizonte
Publisher: Believer Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 1932416404
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Marias's second novel was written in the early '70s when he was 21, and it has all of the stylistic grace and wry invention that has put Maras on the Nobel shortlist. An unnamed narrator ruminates on the intentions of a man (… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction, Sea stories

Title: Waiting for Robert Capa
Translator(s): Adriana V. Lopez
Author: Susana Fortes
Original work: Esperando a Robert Capa
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9780062000385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gerta Pohorylle meets Andre Friedmann in Paris in 1935 and is drawn to his fierce dedication to justice, journalism, and the art of photography. Assuming new names, [they] travel together to Spain, Europe's most harrowing war… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: Ways of Going Home
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Formas de volver a casa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780374286644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; [illustrations on title and part title pages by Charlotte Strick].
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Chilean fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans, Historical

Title: Welcome to Miami, Doctor Leal
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: René Vázquez Díaz
Original work: De pronto el doctor Leal
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270529
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This endlessly engaging novel recounts the personal and political fortunes and misfortunes of Dr. Leal, a prestigious Cuban-American surgeon, who comes home to the Miami of his childhood to attend his brother's funeral. From the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: West of Babylon
Translator(s): Nasario García
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 9780826323408
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spain in 1999, this adventure set in 19th-century New Mexico uses elements of the ancient Near Eastern myth of Gilgamesh to tell a violent tale of war and revenge, treasure hunting and witchcraft. Gil Gomez,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: What We Become
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El tango de la guardia vieja
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 453 pp.
ISBN: 9781476751986
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: When Alligators Sing
Translator(s): Kenneth Kimball
Author: Miguel Angel Santana
Original work: Cuando cantan los lagartos
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 0967565812
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set against the background of the Mexican-American border, this story is the saga of Aida, a Tarahumara Indian who meets, falls in love, and waits fifty years for the American soldier who promised to return. Miguel Santana… read more

Title: When I Was a Horse
Translator(s): Kay S. Garcia
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: TCU Press
City: Fort Worth, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780875653259
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 0811214311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950789
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: NYRB, New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781681375663
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Air Is Clear
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 1564783448
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles