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: When Alligators Sing
Translator(s): Kenneth Kimball
Author: Miguel Angel Santana
Original work: Cuando cantan los lagartos
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 0967565812
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set against the background of the Mexican-American border, this story is the saga of Aida, a Tarahumara Indian who meets, falls in love, and waits fifty years for the American soldier who promised to return. Miguel Santana… read more

Title: When I Was a Horse
Translator(s): Kay S. Garcia
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: TCU Press
City: Fort Worth, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9780875653259
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 0811214311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When I Was Mortal
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Cuando fui mortal
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950789
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: NYRB, New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781681375663
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Original work: Un verdor terrible
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781782276142
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: Where the Air Is Clear
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La región más transparente
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 373 pp.
ISBN: 1564783448
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Mexican fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Where the Bird Sings Best
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: Donde mejor canta un pájaro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 386 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060280
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile… read more

Title: Where There's Love, There's Hate
Translator(s): Silvina Ocampo, Suzanne Jill Levine, Jessica Powell
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: Los que aman, odian
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191508
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In seaside Bosque de Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortun--the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr.… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: While the Women Are Sleeping
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mientras ellas duermen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: || 8433917919
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban,"… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Short stories, spanish, Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: While the Women Are Sleeping
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mientras ellas duermen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219143
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals– haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, spanish, Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

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