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: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mala índole
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218580
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But… read more

Title: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 57 pp.
ISBN: 0811218589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Bad Seed: Stories
Translator(s): Heather Houde
Author: Gabriel Carle
Original work: Mala leche
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9781558613201
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.Contents:           In heat -- Luisito -- In your head -- Casablanca kush --… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Barcelona Noir
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781936070954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains fourteen short crime stories set in Barcelona, including selections by Santiago Roncagliolo, Imma Monso, Valerie Miles, and others.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Bariloche
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: Bariloche
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830621
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through… read more

Title: Bartleby & Co.
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811215911
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters from literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: Bartleby & Co.
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811216985
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: Bartolomé de las Casa : Chronicle of a Dream
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: José Luis Olaizola
Original work: Bartolomé de las Casas, crónica de un sueño
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781621642848
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Bartolomé de Las Casas is one of the most controversial figures in the Spanish colonization of America. For some, because of his defense of the natives, he is the apostle to the Indians; for others, because of his denunciation… read more

Title: Battles in the Desert
Translator(s): Katherine Silver, Sophie Hughes
Author: José Emilio Pacheco
Original work: Las batallas en el desierto
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 80 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230957
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of… read more

Title: Beach Birds
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Severo Sarduy
Original work: Pajaros de la playa
Publisher: Otis Books/Seismicity Editions
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780975592489

Title: Beautiful and Dark
Translator(s): Adrienne Mitchell
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: Bella y oscura
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781879960824
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of the childhood, both real and imagined, of a girl who journeys from the loneliness of an orphanage to the poor neighborhood where a singular family takes her in: Grandmother Barbara, a woman with a powerful presence;… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations

Title: Beauty Salon
Translator(s): Kurt Hollander
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Salón de belleza
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 63 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864733
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a… read more
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico

Title: Beauty Salon
Translator(s): David Shook
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Salón de belleza
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 81 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050734
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly… read more
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico

Title: Becoming Marta
Translator(s): Gabriel Amor
Author: Lorea Canales
Original work: Apenas Marta
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781503952614
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time. That is, until her father's wife--the woman who raised her--becomes ill.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Before
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Original work: Antes
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 104 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920282
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Ghost stories

Title: Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis : A Bilingual, Critical Edition of Denzil Romero's Short Stories
Translator(s): Stephen John Clark
Author: Denzil Romero
Original work: Tardía declaración de amor a Séraphine Louis
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, md
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 0761817557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Berlin Atomized
Translator(s): Jack Rockwell
Author: Julia Kornberg
Original work: Atomizado Berlín
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9781662602856
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings--Jewish and downwardly mobile--from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Domestic fiction, Historical fiction

Title: Berta Isla
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Berta Isla
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 480 pp.
ISBN: 9780525521365
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Spy fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Berta Isla
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Berta Isla
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 479 pp.
ISBN: 9780525563129
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson—the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns to Madrid from his studies at… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Spy fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Translator(s): Olivia Sears
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 529 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785152
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english