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 Family of Pascual Duarte
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Camilo José Cela
Original work: La familia de Pascual Duarte
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781628975055
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction

Title: The Famous Magician
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El ilustre mago
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 60 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Farewell Light
Translator(s): Rowena Hill
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Arrowsmith Press
City: Medford, MA
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9798987924167
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This bilingual edition leaps effortlessly between the natural world and meditations on culture, family, language, and longing. Hernández’s work moves the reader beyond the realm of the individual poet toward a deeper human… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Farm
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince
Original work: La oculta
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 468 pp.
ISBN: 9780914671923
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pilar, Eva, and Antonio ℓngel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: The Farmer
Translator(s): Grace Maccarone, Kelly Loughman
Author: Ximo Abadía
Publisher: Holiday House Publishing Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9780823441587
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Everyone is resting but Paul. Paul mows, rakes, sows, and draws water. Soon Paul has beautiful plants and flowers growing all around him. But one day, the water dries up. The sun beats down. Paul despairs. But thanks to his… read more
Literary Genre: Children's stories, Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: The fat man from La Paz: contemporary fiction from Bolivia
Translator(s): Rosario Santos
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 1583220305
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty stories by Bolivian authors.Contents:                The day of atonement / Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz -- Buttons / Claudia Adriázola -- Dochera / Edmundo Paz-… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Feast of the Goat
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La Fiesta del Chivo
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 471 pp.
ISBN: 9780312987060
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fictional work, Nobel prize in literature, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Feast of the Goat
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La Fiesta del Chivo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 404 pp.
ISBN: 9780374154769
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fictional work, Nobel prize in literature, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Feast of the Goat
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La Fiesta del Chivo
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 404 pp.
ISBN: 0312420277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fictional work, Nobel prize in literature, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Fencing Master
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El maestro de esgrima
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 0156006847
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: The Fire of Love : A Historical Novel About Saint John of the Cross
Translator(s): Stephen Caro
Author: José Luis Olaizola
Original work: Los amores de san Juan de la Cruz
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9781586174064

Title: The Fish Child
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: Lucía Puenzo
Original work: El niño pez
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9780896727144
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The sordid, thrilling, and comic story of two young lovers--affluent Lala and impoverished Guayi; examines the economic and social circumstances of Argentina and Paraguay to make sense of the characters' past choices and present… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous stories, Romance fiction, Humorous fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: The Fisherman's Testament
Translator(s): Kadi Kool
Author: César Vidal Manzanares
Original work: El testamento del pescador
Publisher: Zondervan
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 9780310281047
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Marco Junio Vitales, a military general, is assigned to interrogate an elderly fisherman named Peter during the year A.D. 62 and hears an incredible story that shakes the very foundations of the Roman Empire.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: The Flight of the Condor : Stories of Violence and War from Colombia
Translator(s): Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780299223601
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see a vibrant country amidst the death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his life, an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Flight of the Spirit
Translator(s): Lucy Medina Rivera
Author: Lucy Medina Rivera
Original work: Un espíritu en vuelo
Publisher: L.A. Medina Rivera
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 122 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It is a biographical novel about a mexican pioneer woman aviator, doing commercial flights from the State of Washington to Alaska in the late twenties. It describes the way of life of most of the twentieth century, since 1906;… read more

Title: The forbidden stories of Marta Veranda
Translator(s): Dick Cluster, Marina Harss, Mark Schafer, Alan West-Durán
Author: Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Original work: Las historias prohibidas de Marta Veneranda
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 158322047X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The whispered confessions weave a tapestry of broken taboos and twisted expectations. The poignant and often hilarious tales expose the inner and outer terrain of relationships, sexuality, and the human condition." "In "Little… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories

Title: The Forgotten Names (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: Las vidas perdidas
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 376 pp.
ISBN: 9798891642355
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Novels

Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Original work: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis
Publisher: Wildside Press
City: Doylestown, PA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 1587155249
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
City: Pittsburgh
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 0822941171
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José María Arguedas ; translated by Frances Horning Barraclough ; Julio Ortega, editor ; critical essays translated by Fred Fornoff.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction

Title: The Friend of the Desert
Translator(s): David Shook
Author: Pablo J. d'Ors
Original work: El amigo del desierto : relato de una vocación
Publisher: Parallax Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 127 pp.
ISBN: 9781946764492
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains. "Thanks to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction