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: 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
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Publisher: Black Cat
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780802120779
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Thelonius Monk (not his real name) travels to Russia and meets Linda Evangelista (not her real name) in Saint Petersburg. They journey to Yalta, where he promises that he will make her red hair famous in the fashion magazines.… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Materiales en español, Fiction, Spanish language materials, Romans
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
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Wendy Guerra
Original work: Todos se van
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 254 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184333
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Nieve Guerra finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country torn apart by political unrest, she begins recording the intimate and harsh details of her life within the pages of her… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Fiction, Bildungsroman, Journaux intimes fictifs
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Matilde Asensi
Original work: Todo bajo el cielo
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 9780061458408
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Setting out for Shanghai to settle the affairs of her recently deceased husband, Spanish painter Elvira finds herself swept up in a centuries-old quest to find the lost treasure of China's first emperor.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Matilde Asensi
Original work: Todo bajo el cielo
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 387 pp.
ISBN: 0061458414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain travels to China to settle her dissolute husband's estate which she finds consists of a beautiful box with clues to the burial site of China's first Emperor. She sets out with colorful companions… read more
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Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure fiction
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Novelas ejemplares
Publisher: Pluramon
City: Morrisville, NC
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 414 pp.
ISBN: 9781411634749
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novellas, Action and adventure fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Novelas ejemplares
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven; London
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 419 pp.
ISBN: 9780300125863
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novellas, Action and adventure fiction, Translations
Author: María de Zayas y Sotomayor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9780226768649
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. This book gathers a representative sample of seven stories,… read more
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 135 pp.
ISBN: 9781564786517
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist -- the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"--Is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.
Literary Genre: Satire