On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Author: Juan Valera
Original work: El comendador Mendoza
Publisher: Kessinger Publishers
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9781120242396
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Commander Mendoza is a novel written by Juan Valera and published in 1893. The book is set in the early 19th century and tells the story of a Spanish naval commander named Don Alonso Mendoza. Mendoza is a proud and honorable… read more
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Yoss
Original work: Condonautas
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061867
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 24th century, extragalactic beings arrive in the Milky Way with extraordinary new technologies. Josué, a sexual ambassador, must call upon every ounce of his talent to seal the deal for his colony and all of humanity.
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 601 pp.
ISBN: 9780060732806
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the… read more
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: César Aira
Original work: Las conversaciones
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 88 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221108
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous stories, Humorous fiction, Fiction
Title: Cosme
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Félix Fuenmayor
Original work: Cosme
Publisher: Polyglot Press
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781411599956
Translator(s): Barbara Ras
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513009
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784841
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Guillermo Valcárcel
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9781542042215
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Antique salvager, counterfeiter, and former art forger Jota knows his newest commission pays suspiciously well, but it’s too easy to turn down. All he has to do is find an old clock that apparently has disappeared after being… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction
Title: Cousins
Translator(s): Kit Maude
Author: Aurora Venturini
Original work: Las primas
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781593767297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9780735222885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction
Title: Cremation
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Rafael Chirbes
Original work: Crematorio
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 388 pp.
ISBN: 9780811224307
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco… read more
Literary Genre: Novels
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Jazmina Barrera Velázquez
Original work: Punto de cruz
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641530
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Then: It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Cruz
Translator(s): Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn
Author: Nicolás Ferraro
Original work: Cruz
Publisher: Soho Crime, Soho Press, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9781641293969
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Ann Louise Bardach
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 234 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection some of which appear in English for the first time will take you on an odyssey… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Hillary Gulley
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: OR Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781939293480
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Think Cuba, you're likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane. Rock 'n' roll, zombies, drugs -- anomie and angst -- do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that's assumed an outsized… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Cubanito!
Translator(s): Ralph Rewes
Author: Frank Rodríguez , Ralph Rewes
Publisher: Lulu Press
City: Morrisville, NC
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781411608603
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The tragicomical misadventures of an opinionated Cuban youth on a bi-cultural quicksand path in search for missing principles and spiritual values. Satirical, irreverently shocking and outrageously funny!
Translator(s): Kal Wagenheim
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
City: Princeton
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781558764781
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine "The San Juan Review". Written by six of Puerto Rico's leading writers, it has themes that vary in time from the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Noé O. Vaca
Author: Juan León Mera
Original work: Cumandá
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 9781434326003
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Translator(s): Noé O. Vaca
Author: Juan León Mera
Original work: Cumandá
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9781434325990
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: José Donoso
Original work: La desesperanza
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
City: New Brunswick, NJ
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 9781412812528
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for… read more