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: 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

Title: Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: La traición de Rita Hayworth
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785305
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Between Two Silences = Entre Dos Silencios
Translator(s): Judith Kerman
Author: Hilma Contreras
Original work: Entre dos silencios
Publisher: Mayapple Press
City: Woodstock, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 9781936419319
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and… read more

Title: Beyond the border: a new age in Latin American women's fiction
Translator(s): Nora Erro-Peralta, Caridad Silva
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University Press of Florida
City: Gainesville, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 0813017858
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Beyond the Islands
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Alicia Yánez Cossío
Original work: Más allá de las islas
Publisher: UNO Press
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 221 pp.
ISBN: 9781608010431
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Beyond the Island recreates the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Beyond the Silence
Translator(s): Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Author: Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Original work: El silencio del ayer
Publisher: Alexandria Library Publishing House
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781518733833
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The universal dilemma between truth and survival pulsates in the plot that takes place at the end of the 1980s in the city of Havana. Boris, a young lieutenant in Cuban counter-intelligence meets Sebastián, who is bringing as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Bezoar : And Other Unsettling Stories
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: Pétalos y otras historias incómodas
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781609809584
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human… read more

Title: Bird House
Translator(s): Blanca Gómez
Author: Blanca Gómez
Original work: Un pájaro en casa
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Literary Genre: Juvenile works

Title: Biting Silence
Translator(s): Arturo von Vacano
Author: Arturo von Vacano
Original work: Morder el silencio
Publisher: Ruminator Books
City: St. Paul, MN
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 230 pp.
ISBN: 9781886913585
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The journalist named no names. He claimed nothing false. He was not a radical, not a communist, less interested in politics than in writing itself. Nevertheless, one sentence,  "The real cause of this crisis is corruption at… read more

Title: Bitter Drink
Translator(s): Tanya Huntington Hyde
Author: F. G. Haghenbeck
Original work: Trago amargo
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 161 pp.
ISBN: 9781612183909
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private detective Sunny Pascal is hired to babysit the cast of a movie filming in Puerto Vallarta, but when someone is shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members, he has to keep them out of jail while he solves the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Black Novel (With Argentines)
Translator(s): Toby Talbot
Author: Luisa Valenzuela
Original work: Novela negra con argentinos
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA.
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 1891270133
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) New York City. Three A.M. The present. A man emerges from a building, a revolver in his pocket. Upstairs, in her apartment, alone in her bed, lies a woman - an actress the man met for the first time earlier that evening. She… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Luisa Valenzuela ; translation by Toby Talbot.
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Blitz
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: David Trueba
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9781590517840
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Blood and Sand
Translator(s): W. A. Gillespie
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 1417911352
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in the bullfighting world of Valencia, Spain, the story follows the rise and fall of Juan Gallardo, a talented but impoverished young man who becomes a famous matador. Gallardo's success brings him wealth, fame, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Blood and Sand
Translator(s): W. A. Gillespie
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 9781162788944
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Blood of the Dawn
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Claudia Salazar
Original work: La sangre de la aurora
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920428
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: Blood Red
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Gabriela Ponce Padilla
Original work: Sanguínea
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9781632063304
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce Padilla, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, pleasure, and pain. In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Stream of consciousness fiction

Title: Blow-up, and Other Stories
Translator(s): Paul Blackburn
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780394728810
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a collection of stories that explore life's mystery, a tiger stalks a vacation home and a man discovers that in the mystery he is reading, he is the victim.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Blue Label
Translator(s): Paul Filev
Author: Eduardo J. Sánchez Rugeles
Original work: Etiqueta azul
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 237 pp.
ISBN: 9781885983572
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a… read more

Title: Blue Note = Cierto Azul
Translator(s): Elaine S. Brooks
Author: Fernando Contreras Castro
Original work: Cierto azul
Publisher: Diálogos, an imprint of Lavender Ink
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9781944884888
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction

Title: Bonsai
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Bonsái
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 83 pp.
ISBN: 9781933633626
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction