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: Black Wolf (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Original work: Loba negra
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 601 pp.
ISBN: 9798885798006
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work to solve the most dangerous crimes. In southern Spain, a key mafia figure is found murdered in his villa, his wife, Lola Moreno, barely escapes an attempt to kill… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery fiction

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

Title: Bonsai
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Bonsái
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 83 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191683
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction

Title: Bonsai
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Bonsái
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 79 pp.
ISBN: 9780143136507
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction

Title: Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: El libro de arena
Publisher: Penguin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 0143105299
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Translations into english

Title: Boxwood
Translator(s): Patricia Haugaard
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217514
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of… read more
Literary Genre: World literature, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Breathing Through the Wound
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Víctor del Árbol
Original work: Respirar por la herida
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 669 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518434
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Psychological fiction, Fiction, Love stories, Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Brickmakers
Translator(s): Annie McDermott
Author: Selva Almada
Original work: Ladrilleros
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450697
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Gay fiction, Social problem fiction, Romans homosexuels, Romans

Title: Briefcases from Caracas
Translator(s): Barbara Riess
Author: Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez
Original work: Los maletines
Publisher: BSE
City: Beacon, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9798986036977
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Inspired by a real-life event of undeclared cash carried from Venezuela to Argentina in 2007, Briefcases from Caracas is an extraordinarily literary blend of the classic noir novel and international political thriller, the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: Bring Me The Head of Quentin Tarantino : Stories
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450413
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the… read more
Literary Genre: Black humor, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories

Title: Brodie's Report : Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Original work: El informe de Brodie
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780143039259
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed… read more

Title: Bruno Fólner's Last Tango
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Mempo Giardinelli
Original work: La última felicidad de Bruno Fólner
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680410
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It's a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there's a price to pay.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction