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 Librarian of Auschwitz
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Canción de cuna de Auschwitz
Publisher: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 447 pp.
ISBN: 9781250211682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Literary Genre: Large type books, Fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction

Title: The Librarian of Saint-Malo
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: La bibliotecaria de Saint-Malo
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780785239918
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village" -- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Life and Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes
Translator(s): Thomas Roscoe, Alain René Le Sage, John Henry Brady , Mateo Alemán
Author: Desconocido
Original work: Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2010
ISBN: 9780548934883

Title: The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi and Other Stories
Translator(s): Emily Toder
Author: Edgar Bayley
Original work: Vida y memoria del Doctor Pi y otras historias
Publisher: Clockroot Books
City: Northampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 86 pp.
ISBN: 9781566568371
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure. With an uncommon blend of elation and discretion, The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi takes readers on a journey of mysterious encounters, unspoken agreements,… read more

Title: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes : His Fortunes and Adversities
Translator(s): W. S. Merwin
Author: Desconocido
Original work: Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 118 pp.
ISBN: 9781590171325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters,… read more

Title: The Light of the Fireflies
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Paul Pen
Original work: El brillo de las luciérnagas
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 327 pp.
ISBN: 9781503933545
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: The Limping Devil = El Diablo Cojuelo
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Ignacio López-Calvo
Author: Luis Vélez de Guevara
Original work: El diablo cojuelo
Publisher: Stockcero
City: Doral, FL
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781934768921
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel The Limping Devil (El diablo cojuelo) was first published in Spain in 1641. The author of nearly two hundred dramas, Luis Vélez de Guevara was highly admired by his contemporaries, including Miguel de Cervantes and… read more

Title: The Linden Tree
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El tilo
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 92 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: The Literary Conference
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 90 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218788
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Science fiction, Fiction

Title: The Little Buddhist Monk ; &, The Proof
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Lizard's Tale
Translator(s): Julio Ortega, Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: José Donoso
Original work: Lagartija sin cola
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, Ill.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780810127029
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) At the center of The Lizard's Tale is Antonio Muñoz-Roa, a prominent painter whose circumstances bear a striking resemblance to Donoso's own when he wrote the novel. Hiding in his Barcelona apartment, obsessed with… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Donoso ; edited by Julio Ortega ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Chilean fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english

Title: The Lonely Hearts Club
Translator(s): Ed Emery
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781852427528
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Lords of Time
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Original work: Los señores del tiempo
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 481 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898630
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The third novel in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy sees Kraken on the hunt for a murderer whose macabre crimes are lifted straight from history. Kraken is charged with investigating the death of a businessman… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Lost Angel
Translator(s): Carlos Frías
Author: Javier Sierra
Original work: El ángel perdido
Publisher: Atria
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9781451632798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In approximately seventy-two hours, a little known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world, and a central aspect of their plan is the kidnapping of Martin Fabor, an undercover American scientist.… read more

Title: The Lost Steps
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Original work: Los pasos perdidos
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780816638079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization the upper reaches of a great South American river.

Title: The Love Parade
Translator(s): G. B. Henson
Author: Sergio Pitol
Original work: El desfile del amor
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 271 pp.
ISBN: 9781646051137
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to solve the mystery of a murder committed in the building where he lived as a ten-year-old in Mexico City's Colonia Roma in autumn 1942. Mexico had just… read more

Title: The Madwoman of Gandoca
Translator(s): Terry J. Martin
Author: Anacristina Rossi
Original work: La loca de Gandoca
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 110 pp.
ISBN: 0773456376
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Magic Lantern
Translator(s): Margaret Carson
Author: José Tomás de Cuéllar
Original work: La linterna mágica
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 9780195115024
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture.Edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz. Illustrations by José María Villasana.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: The Maids of Havana
Translator(s): Jonathan Curry-Machado
Author: Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Original work: Las criadas de La Habana
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9781449070700
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her… read more

Title: The Man of Feeling
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: El hombre sentimental
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 0811215318
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After meeting during a train ride from Milan to Venice, a young opera singer and a married woman begin a passionate love affair.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans