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: Wicked Weeds
Translator(s): Jessica Powell
Author: Pedro Cabiya
Original work: Malas hierbas
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
City: Simsbury, CT
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9781942134114
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Caribbean zombie--smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company--becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become "a… read more
Literary Genre: Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, Noir fiction, Zombie fiction, Novels

Title: Widows
Original work: Viudas
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224830
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) One by one, men's bodies are washing up on the shore of the river that passes through town, where they are claimed by the local women as their missing husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are… read more
Literary Genre: Chronologies, History

Title: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
Translator(s): Emma Thompson
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: General Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 73 pp.
ISBN: 9781151305749
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: Witches
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Brenda Lozano
Original work: Brujas
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781646220687
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma. Paloma is dead. But before… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels, Witch fiction, Romans

Title: Without a Net
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781934909287
Summary/Reviews: () Ana María Shua's microfictions reveal oneiric universes, multiform realties, secret worlds with the unlikely coherence of the absurd, the amorphous logic of the imagination. They are characterized by the most unique form of concise… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Woes of the True Policeman
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Las sinsabores del verdadero policía
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 250 pp.
ISBN: 9780374266745
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled Chilean university professor and widower―… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Woes of the True Policeman
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Las sinsabores del verdadero policía
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 250 pp.
ISBN: 9781447233282
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Woman in Battle Dress
Translator(s): Jessica Powell
Author: Antonio Benítez Rojo
Original work: Mujer en traje de batalla
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 479 pp.
ISBN: 9780872866768
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris--and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the… read more
Literary Genre: Medical fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction

Title: Women with Big Eyes
Translator(s): Amy S. Greenberg
Author: Ángeles Mastretta
Publisher: Riverhead
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 384 pp.
ISBN: 9781594480409
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The number-one international bestseller, "Women With Big Eyes" is Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta's most wedely read work, at last translated into English. Meet the outrageous Aunt Leonor, who deines herself the forbidden… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: Women with Big Eyes
Translator(s): Amy S. Greenberg
Author: Ángeles Mastretta
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 372 pp.
ISBN: 1573223468
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A number-one international bestseller, Women with Big Eyes is Mexican novelist Ángeles Mastretta's most widely read work, now available for the first time in an English translation. Each of the stories in this volume reveals a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romance fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Short stories, Romans

Title: Wonderful World
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Javier Calvo
Original work: Mundo maravilloso
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 470 pp.
ISBN: 9780061557682
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) The story of a son trying to make his father proud-- by becoming an international criminal. Set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: General fiction, Novels, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Y No Se Lo Tragó La Tierra / ...and the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Bilingual Edition)
Translator(s): Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
Author: Tomás Rivera
Original work: Y no se lo tragó la tierra
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9781558858152
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic… read more

Title: Yankee Invasion : A Novel of Mexico City
Translator(s): Tim Compton
Author: Ignacio Solares
Original work: La invasión
Publisher: Scarletta Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 097982494X
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: Yawar Fiesta
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Original work: Yawar fiesta
Publisher: Waveland Press
City: Prospect Heights, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781577662457
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress… read more

Title: Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada
Translator(s): Sabina Cienfuegos
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La nada cotidiana
Publisher: Arcade
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781611450750
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana… read more

Title: Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada : A Novel of Cuba
Translator(s): Sabina Cienfuegos
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: La nada cotidiana
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781611459333
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Now back in print, the debut novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary sensation, the bold, bawdy story of a failed revolution and its discontents.
Literary Genre: History, Fiction

Title: You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot
Translator(s): Margaret Randall
Author: Freddy Prestol Castillo
Original work: El masacre se pasa a pie
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781478003205
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti--Dominican Republic… read more
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Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History

Title: You Cried Too
Translator(s): Kathleen Ross
Author: Matilde Herrera
Original work: Vos también lloraste
Publisher: Azul Editions
City: New London, CT
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 69 pp.
ISBN: 9781885214409
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 Dogs — The knife — Eduardito doesn't like the police — Marcos — The sign — We have to be strong — Mama is sick.

Title: Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Two : Dance and Dream
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tu rostro mañana
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216562
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans

Title: Your Face Tomorrow. Volume 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Veneno y sombra y adiós
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jacques Deza, hired by a shady branch of the MI6, returns to Madrid to both to spy on and to protect his own family.--From publisher's description.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans