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: Death Rites
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Ritos de muerte
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372549
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Petra Delicado, a Barcelona police inspector assigned to a desk job, returns to the homicide department to investigate the rapes of young girls by a serial rapist who only leaves a circular mark on his victims' forearms.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Deep Purple
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: Púrpura profundo
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 0060938218
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Distinguished music critic Agustin Caban has written for a San Juan newspaper all his life. Forced to retire, he continues to haunt its offices, encouraged by his former editor. Agustin is writing his memoirs, and his editor… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Deep Rivers
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Original work: Los ríos profundos
Publisher: Waveland Press
City: Prospect Heights, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781577662440
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well… read more

Title: Delirium
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Delirio
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 0385519907
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Delirium
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Delirio
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9780307278043
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Demerol : Without Expiration Date
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: El baño de Frida Kahlo
Publisher: Editorial RM
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2008
ISBN: 9786077515029

Title: Desire and Its Shadow
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Ana Clavel
Original work: Los deseos y su sombra
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765253
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Soledad awakes to find herself invisible, standing in the middle of Mexico City. Is she really invisible, or have others just stopped seeing her? Prisoner of her passions--to change identity, to be the object of someone's… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, mexican -- translations into english, Fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: Destiny and Desire
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Voluntad y la fortuna
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 415 pp.
ISBN: 9781400068807
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction

Title: Devoured by the Moon : Selected Poems
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Hanging Loose
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781931236386
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain's most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Dick's Kiss
Translator(s): John C. Miller
Author: Fernando Molano Vargas
Original work: Un beso de Dick
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 9781931948463

Title: Die, Lady, Die
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Alejandro López
Original work: La asesina de Lady Di
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 0970765266
Summary/Reviews: () With an afterword by David Link; translation edited by Luis Lemoine.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Diego Rivera the Red
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Guadalupe Rivera Marín
Original work: Diego el Rojo
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, Texas
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 296 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854345
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Charting his childhood before the Mexican Revolution through his years in a Europe immersed in the Bolshevik revolution, this vivid portrait offers a thorough examination of Diego Rivera's creative and intellectual evolution.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Different : A Story of the Spanish Civil War
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Mónica Montañés
Original work: Los distintos
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 79 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855985
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. When fascist dictator Francisco Franco declared victory, he began to persecute everyone who had once opposed him. Spain became a country of secrets, where anyone who was… read more
Literary Genre: Illustrated works, War fiction, Juvenile works, History, Fiction, Historical fiction, Ouvrages illustrés

Title: Dinner
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: La cena
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221085
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Zombie fiction, Horror fiction, Paranormal fiction, Fiction

Title: Dirty Havana Trilogy : A Novel in Stories
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 392 pp.
ISBN: 0060006897
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Testifying to the squalor and grit of contemporary Cuba, Pedro Juan Gutierrez's novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living from hand to mouth, half disgusted and half fascinated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction

Title: Dirty Havana Trilogy : A Novel in Stories
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 392 pp.
ISBN: 9780060006891
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction

Title: Distant Palaces
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Abilio Estévez
Original work: Los palacios distantes
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781559707008
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of misfits, the trio find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, as well as joy in their growing ability to entertain people with their… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Distant Relations
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Una familia lejana
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9781564783455
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the cafe, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the… read more

Title: Distant Star
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Estrella distante
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780811215862
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Fictional work, Translations, Romans

Title: Divorce is in the Air
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Gonzalo Torné
Original work: Divorcio en el aire
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 301 pp.
ISBN: 9780385354028
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Love stories