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
Author: Ariel Dorfman
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: MacLehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9781529412277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers. Paloma is… read more
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels, Witch 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

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: Wolfskin
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Lara Moreno
Original work: Piel de lobo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sofía is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sofía flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

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: Woodworm
Translator(s): Annie McDermott, Sophie Hughes
Author: Layla Martínez
Original work: Carcoma
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641592
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A granddaughter and grandmother, alienated from their community, live among various sombras, shadows of the dead with whom they alone can pray and commune. When the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws the unwanted… read more
Literary Genre: Ghost stories, Horror fiction, Novels

Title: World's Best Mother
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Nuria Labari
Original work: La mejor madre del mundo
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781642860726
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey--through… read more

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: Yearning for the Sea
Translator(s): Selma Marks
Author: Esther Seligson
Original work: Sed de mar
Publisher: Frayed Edge Press
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 56 pp.
ISBN: 9781642510331
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yearning for the Sea picks up the story of Homer's Odyssey at the point of Ulysses' return to his wife Penelope, twenty years after the destruction of Troy. He has faced a long struggle to overcome the obstacles interposed by the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction

Title: Yesterday
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Juan Emar
Original work: Ayer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 107 pp.
ISBN: 9780811231572
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels