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: Celestina
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Fernando de Rojas
Original work: La Celestina
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780143106098
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the… read more
Author: Manuel Zapata Olivella
Original work: Changó, el gran putas
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
City: Lubbock, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9780896726734
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Translated into English and spanning three continents, this epic novel of the African Diaspora in the Americas recounts over five centuries of displacement and servitude. Employing multiple narrative voices and encompassing all… read more
Literary Genre: Epic fiction, Fiction, Romans épiques
Author: Carmen Posadas
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780061583636
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A haunting psychological thriller involving cruelty, secrets, and murder at an exclusive private school.
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Spanish fiction
Author: Carmen Posadas
Original work: Juego de niños
Publisher: Alma
City: Richmond
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780061583629
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Luisa Davila is an established Spanish mystery writer who decides that her detective's next case will involve the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. However, following the death of one of her daughter's… read more
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780785234791
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Religious fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9781643586311
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Religious fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 226 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513139
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traverse Chile's literary and geographic landscape with some of its best writers. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Poeta chileno
Publisher: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780593492505
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons,… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Cooper Esteban
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Ravenna Press
City: Edmonds, WA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780977616299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A fascinating collection of three strange and thought-provoking short stories by acclaimed and prize-winning Spanish-language Mexican writer, Mario Bellatin: Chinese Checkers; Hero Dogs; and My Skin Luminous, stories describing… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Martin Sokolinsky
Author: Camilo José Cela
Original work: Cristo versus Arizona
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 274 pp.
ISBN: 9781564783417
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9781564783394
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus'… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 0394530748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9781400034710
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780394530741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Translator(s): John Penuel
Author: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270192
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Chronicle of San Gabriel explores an isolated rural community from the perspective of a city dweller. After his mother's death, Lucho, a teenager, is sent from Lima to stay with his relatives at the San Gabriel hacienda; there… read more
Translator(s): Evelia Romano
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: E. Mellen
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 269 pp.
ISBN: 9780773462700
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperTrophy
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 9780060535032
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 406 pp.
ISBN: 006050918
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Adventure, Romans
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780802139795
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms, Cleopatra… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Geoff Hargreaves
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 0802117538
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms,… read more
Literary Genre: History, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Historical fiction, Romans