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 Mule
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Juan Eslava Galán
Original work: La mula
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780553385083
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Murmur of Bees
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: El murmullo de las abejas
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 461 pp.
ISBN: 9781542040495
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Novels, Magic realist fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans

Title: The Murmuration
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Carlos Labbé
Original work: La parvá
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781960385017
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On the eve of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, a retired sports commentator with a secret ability to influence living beings with his voice encounters one of the directors of the Chilean national team—a feminist with a covert agenda—… read more
Literary Genre: Sports fiction, Political fiction

Title: The Museum of Eterna's Novel : the First Good Novel
Translator(s): Margaret Schwartz
Author: Macedonio Fernández
Original work: Museo de la novela de la eterna
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824061
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: The Museum of Useless Efforts
Translator(s): Tobias Hecht
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780803287648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting… read more

Title: The musical brain and other stories
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El cerebro musical
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220293
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The Mutations
Translator(s): Charlotte Whittle
Author: Jorge Comensal
Original work: Las mutaciones
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9781250758125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City by way of the life of a successful lawyer struck with a rare cancer of the tongue.
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Medical fiction, Romans

Title: The Mutations
Translator(s): Charlotte Whittle
Author: Jorge Comensal
Original work: Las mutaciones
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216535
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Medical fiction, Romans

Title: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: José Donoso
Original work: La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780811232241
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of a middling Nicaraguan diplomat posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paquito, heir to one of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels

Title: The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories = El Arco Iris Desnudo y Otros Cuentos
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9780826345998
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fictional stories based upon the personal experiences of the author and folklorist, Nasario García.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Naked Woman
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Armonía Etchepare Locino
Original work: La mujer desnuda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Feminist fiction, Historical, Magic realism (literature)

Title: The Names of the Things That Were There : Stories
Translator(s): Curtis Bauer
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Los nombres de las cosas que allí había : antología de cuentos
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 318 pp.
ISBN: 9781635420760
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The best stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman. Each of the stories in this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, along with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 0151005346
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Nautical Chart
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9780151005345
Summary/Reviews: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romantic suspense fiction

Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Faber & Faber
City: London
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780571333073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780374155124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: The Neighborhood
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: Cinco esquinas
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9781250310361
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History

Title: The Neruda Case
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Roberto Ampuero
Original work: El caso Neruda
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 340 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The New Woman
Translator(s): Claire Wadie
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: La mujer nueva
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D. C.
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 388 pp.
ISBN: 9780813239804
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ahead of its time, The New Woman tells the story of a woman who longs for freedom in a world in which she has been denied it. But she learns that true freedom also means responsibility. Paulina is young and passionate but vain.… read more

Title: The Night
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn, Noel Hernández González
Author: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Original work: The night
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 349 pp.
ISBN: 9781644210406
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount… read more