On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher: Humanoids
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9781594650284
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Because of their love of both word and image, Alexandro Jodorowsky challenged François Boucq ("Bouncer") to a game. Jodorowsky would write dozens of short stories full of wisdom and humor, poetry and brutality, irony and beauty.… read more
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: La forma de las ruinas
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 509 pp.
ISBN: 9780735211148
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: La forma de las ruinas
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 729 pp.
ISBN: 9781432862114
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Diabola en el espejo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218467
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Horror fiction
Translator(s): Psiche Hughes
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: La nave de los locos
Publisher: Readers International
City: Columbia, LA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 0930523547
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A political exile named Ecks wanders through strange, unnamed places in search for his own soul, in this dreamlike experimental novel from the prominent Uruguayan novelist.
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Quercus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639268
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Alberto Barrera
Original work: La enfermedad
Publisher: Tin House Books
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781935639251
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dr. Miranda is coming to terms with a tragedy: his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and has only a few weeks to live. And yet the doctor--the son--finds it impossible to tell him. Ernesto Duran is convinced he is… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 598 pp.
ISBN: 9781400069682
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Thrillers (fiction)
Title: The Siege
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El asedio
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 563 pp.
ISBN: 9780297864325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), History, Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eva García Sáenz
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 508 pp.
ISBN: 9781984898593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Antonio Di Benedetto
Original work: El silenciero
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 9781681375625
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Silentiary (1964) happens in a nameless Latin-American city during the years after World War II. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish… read more
Literary Genre: Satirical literature, Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): William Rowlandson
Author: Paola Kaufmann
Original work: La hermana
Publisher: Overlook/Rookery
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 1585679518
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale based on the life of the reclusive classic author follows her precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her interactions with the men in her… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: Glosa
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824207
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A wealthy, elegant, educated man returns to the seaside Argentinean city of Santa Fe and befriends a newcomer to the area and the two men's lives take drastically different paths that lead them both back to the same point.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: A New Directions Book
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217132
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0374265755
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780374265755
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Deanna Heikkinen
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: La piel del cielo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Original work: El cielo de Lima
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780544630055
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Publisher: McPherson & Company
City: Kingston, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 9781620540206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this Nicaraguan noir, Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Inspector Bert Dixon -- former Sandinista guerilla fighters now attached to the Narcotics Unit of the National Police -- investigate the disappearance of a young woman… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Rizal
Original work: Noli me tángere
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Atascadero, CA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 249 pp.
ISBN: 9781539807315
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as José Rizal; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, History, Fiction, Romance fiction, Translations, Love stories, Romans