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 Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
Translator(s): David Coulter
Author: Eugenio Fernández Granell
Original work: La novela del indio Tupinamba
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9780872867468
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Picaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Political fiction, Picaresque fiction, War stories, Allegories

Title: The Nubian Prince
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Juan Bonilla
Original work: Los príncipes nubios
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 258 pp.
ISBN: 0805077812
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Obscene Bird of Night
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin, Leonard Mades
Author: José Donoso
Original work: El obsceno pájaro de la noche
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 438 pp.
ISBN: 1567920462
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Humberto, who lives and works at a convent home for old women, loses his sanity as he becomes obsessed with black magic and his duty to protect a monstrous child.

Title: The Obscure Side of the Night = El Lado Oculto de la Noche
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis Romero
Original work: El lado oculto de la noche
Publisher: Otis Books
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 9780986017384
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) I know what really happened.I read in the fat man's annals my mother's memory and my false father's words:"Watch out for the yellow amatory gloves. At times they escape from the confines of the fat man and… read more

Title: The Obstacles
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz Kanan
Original work: Las Rémoras
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 350 pp.
ISBN: 1564784274
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction

Title: The Octopus Deception
Translator(s): Daniel Estulin
Author: Daniel Estulin
Original work: Conspiración Octopus
Publisher: Trine Day
City: Walterville, OR
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 234 pp.
ISBN: 9781937584238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this timely political thriller, CIA special agent Curtis Fitzgerald, scholar Simone Casoloro, and historian Michael Asbury, must race against the clock to find trillions of dollars worth of stolen funds to prevent global… read more

Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 0374530521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Old Gringo
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Gringo viejo
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780374525224
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The One Before
Translator(s): Roanne L. Kantor
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: La mayor
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824788
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of a series of short pieces with two novellas, treating many of the same characters.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels

Title: The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780810124608
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. 'A Heaven Without Crows,' structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Other Son of God
Translator(s): Henry J. Richards
Author: Nelson Estupiñán Bass
Original work: Al norte de Dios
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: North Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781480256200
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Other Son of God is the English version of Al norte de Dios (1994), the tenth novel by the renowned Ecuadorian writer, Nelson Estupinan Bass (1912-2002). The author situates the work within the realm of the fantastic, a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Nelson Estupiñán Bass ; translated by Henry J. Richards.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Oval Portrait: Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists
Translator(s): Margaret Randall
Author: Soleida Ríos
Original work: El retrato ovalado
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 9781609405571
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the… read more

Title: The Oxford Brotherhood
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Los crímenes de Alicia
Publisher: Abacus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9780349144122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself -- and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction

Title: The Oxford Brotherhood
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Los crímenes de Alicia
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 9781643138770
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood,… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction

Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 1596921501
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina's most distinctive voices" (The Times Literary… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780143037965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780812977301
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retreated to a tower overlooking the Spanish coast, where he paints a vast mural incorporating the indelible images of conflict he’s witnessed in his lifetime.One night,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Palimpsests
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Aleksandra Lun
Original work: Los palimpsestos
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781567926521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, has survived long toilet paper lines of communist Poland, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction