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: An Open Secret
Translator(s): Ian Barnett
Author: Carlos Gamerro
Original work: El secreto y las voces
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's An Open Secret is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.

Title: And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Gonzalo Celorio
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9780292719118
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Gonzalo Celorio ; translated by Dick Gerdes ; foreword by Ruben Gallo.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Andean Express
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan Recacoechea S.
Original work: Altiplano express
Publisher: Akashic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354729
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History

Title: Antigua and My Life Before
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Antigua vida mía
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 0385498012
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, wakes to read that her closest friend, Violeta, has suffered a brutal tragedy. Assisted by the "others", a chorus of female ancestral spirits, the two women discover they can… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Antigua and My Life Before
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Antigua vida mía
Publisher: Anchor Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780385498029
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Antipodes
Translator(s): Alastair Reid
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Las antípodas y el siglo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 0374105332
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a meditation on the nature of identity and, on the unsuspected tragedies inflicted on people by the chaos of war.
Literary Genre: Short story genre, Short stories, Psychological fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Antón Mallick Wants to Be Happy
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Nicolás Casariego
Original work: Antón Mallick quiere ser feliz
Publisher: Hispabooks
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9788494174483
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After an unexpected incident triggers his first anguish attack in months, Antón is dead set on putting an end once and for all to his woeful days.

Title: Antwerp
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 78 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219914
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Antwerp
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 78 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217170
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Any Wednesday I'm Yours
Translator(s): James Graham
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Cualquier miércoles soy tuya
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 159448001
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction -- 2005, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Romans

Title: Anywhere, Anytime
Translator(s): Stella Fernández
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Cambridge BrickHouse
City: Lawrence, MA
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9781598350517
Summary/Reviews: () Anywhere, Anytime deals with the consequences of war as they affect art, culture, thought, and human feelings. Through 15 short pieces set in different historical periods, the author offers a critical view on the incompatibility of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Apocalypse Z : Dark Days
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
Author: Manel Loureiro
Original work: Los días oscuros
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9781477809310
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn't have your back just might have your… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fiction, Dystopias

Title: Apocalypse Z : The Beginning of the End
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
Author: Manel Loureiro
Original work: Apocalipsis Z : el principio del fin
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 324 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a zombie breakout ravages Spain, a few survivors arrive in the Canary Islands, one of the last zones safe from the Undead. But there, they encounter a military state embroiled in a civil war with a hungry population without… read more
Literary Genre: Apocalyptic fiction

Title: Apocalypse Z : The Wrath of the Just
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
Author: Manel Loureiro
Original work: Apocalipsis Z : la ira de los justos
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9781477818442
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon. . .and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly… read more
Literary Genre: Zombie fiction, Horror fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman
Translator(s): Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: El beso de la mujer araña
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9780873528177
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-… read more

Title: Argentina: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Jill Gibian
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513191
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explores the ever-changing landscape of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Arrival of Spring
Translator(s): Erwin Taboada
Author: Felipe Pazos
Original work: Llegada de la primavera
Publisher: Xlibris
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781436303798
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Spaniard, born in Galicia, migrates to South America's western coast. Hard work, savings, and investments allow him to develop a prosperous enterprise. His son, and later Marco his grandson, expand the company. Domingo… read more

Title: Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y Su Visión del México Colonial
Translator(s): Dolores E. Rangel
Author: Dolores E. Rangel
Original work: Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y su visión del México colonial
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9781588712066

Title: Ashes in Love
Translator(s): James Hoggard
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Host Publications
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9780924047725
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn. Hahn's work has been… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Oscar Hahn ; translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Ashes of Orchids : O'Neill in Buenos Aires
Translator(s): Nouha Gorani Homad
Author: Jorge Paolantonio
Original work: Ceniza de orquídeas
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9781934978146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugene O'Neill reached the port of Buenos Aires by the end of May 1910. He was just entering his twenties and possibly running away from a problematic family which would later become the core of some of his main dramatic… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction