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

Translator(s): David R. George
Author: Leopoldo Alas
Original work: Doña Berta
Publisher: European Masterpieces
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9781589770492
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: High Wycombe
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 74 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276001
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the… read more
Translator(s): Carol Maier
Author: Rosa Chacel
Original work: Sinrazón
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 656 pp.
ISBN: 9780803214736
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rosa Chacel ; translated by Carol Maier.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans
Author: Juana Manuela Gorriti
Original work: Sueños y realidades
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 0195117379
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Sueños y realidades and… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Author: Beatriz Salcedo-Strumpf
Publisher: Author House
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781418425609
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Played out against the background of today's instant communication via internet, this a story of a woman who comes face to face with emotional and cultural questions when a chance meeting with a lover from her past reopens… read more
Title: Eartheater
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Dolores Reyes
Original work: Cometierra
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780062987730
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Literary fiction
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9780820474359
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Harold Augenbraum
Author: José Rizal
Original work: El filibusterismo
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 339 pp.
ISBN: 9780143106395
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Rizal ; translated [from the Spanish] with an introduction and notes by Harold Augenbraum.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Author: José Rizal
Original work: El filibusterismo
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
City: Honolulu, HI
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780824831189
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published in Ghent in 1891, this work is translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A nationalist novel by an author who has been called ""the first Filipino,"" its nature as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Author: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Original work: El zarco
Publisher: Lumen Books, MN
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780930829612
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Ema, la cautiva
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 231 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219105
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Tess O'Dwyer
Author: Giannina Braschi
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781611090659
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal characters who seek… read more
Title: Empty Set
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Verónica Gerber Bicecci
Original work: Conjunto vacío
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895002
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Veronica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt."--Francisco Goldman "From the very beginning, Veronica Gerber… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; gerber bicecci, verónica, 1981-; conjunto vacío english; empty set; minneapolis : coffee house press, 2018
Translator(s): Annie McDermott
Author: Mario Levrero
Original work: El discurso vacío
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895545
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A writer begins keeping a notebook of handwriting exercises hoping that, if he is able to improve his penmanship, his character will improve too. What begins as a mere physical exercise is filled involuntarily with reflections… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Roberto G. Fernández
Author: Roberto G. Fernández
Original work: En la ocho y la doce
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 0618000216 9780618000210
Summary/Reviews: () An excellent addition to intermediate or advanced-level Spanish language or literature courses, En la Ocho y la Doce is a collection of microfictions and longer stories that present diverse perspectives on the experience of Cuban… read more
Literary Genre: Cuban fiction
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Greenwood Press
City: Westport, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 514 pp.
ISBN: 9780313290411
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9780773469204
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Argentine native Hermann has mostly retired from her career as a scholar of Spanish literature in the US. She assembled ten stories in Viajes en lapalabra y en la imagen , which was published by Ediciones de Arte Gaglanone in… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Eva Luna
Publisher: Dial Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 307 pp.
ISBN: 9780553383829
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling. Rolf Carle flees Germany for South… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Eva Luna
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Eva Luna
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 349 pp.
ISBN: 9781501117084
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Terra Alta
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 339 pp.
ISBN: 9780593318805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Romans