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: The Inhabited Woman
Translator(s): Kathleen N. March
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: La mujer habitada
Publisher: Univ. of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 421 pp.
ISBN: 9780299206840
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lavinia is accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is also sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being. Then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent… read more

Title: The Obscene Bird of Night
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin
Author: José Donoso
Original work: El obsceno pájaro de la noche
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 438 pp.
ISBN: 9781567920468
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monster deliberately surrounded by other freaks to protect him from the knowledge of his deformity, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative… read more

Title: The Reader
Translator(s): Luciana De Luca
Author: Luciana De Luca
Original work: Ratón de biblioteca
Publisher: Crocodile Books
City: Northampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781623719388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) While her parents sleep and other children play outside, a young girl begins to read, reveling in how books can take her anywhere and allow her to do anything.
Literary Genre: Juvenile works

Title: The Ship of Fools
Translator(s): Psiche Hughes
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: La nave de los locos
Publisher: Readers International
City: Columbia, LA
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9780930523541
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A political exile named Ecks wanders through strange, unnamed places in search for his own soul, in this dreamlike experimental novel from the prominent Uruguayan novelist. 

Title: The Tattoo Hunter
Translator(s): Juvenal Acosta Hernández
Author: Juvenal Acosta Hernández
Original work: El cazador de tatuajes
Publisher: Gato Negro Books
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 9780887394966
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Tattoo Hunter is a powerful account of the dark side of sexuality and its effects on human consciousness. Written in an exciting poetic style, this story of curiosity and seduction takes us from the very origins of the… read more

Title: The Underdogs
Translator(s): E. Munguía
Author: Mariano Azuela
Original work: Los de abajo
Publisher: AkashaPublishing.Com
City: LaVergne, TN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 160512110X
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: They weren't the Indies
Translator(s): Julius P. Kreier
Author: M.L. López Vergara
Original work: No serán las Indias
Publisher: Xlibris
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 484 pp.
ISBN: 9781401047856

Title: Tía Fortuna's New Home
Translator(s): Ruth Behar
Author: Ruth Behar
Original work: El nuevo hogar de Tía Fortuna
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 24 pp.
ISBN: 9780593172414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.Illustrated by Devon Holzwarth. 
Literary Genre: Picture books

Title: Wrath of the Gods - Xibalba
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Carlos H. Cantú
Original work: Xibalbá
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
City: Philadelphia, PA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 345 pp.
ISBN: 1413478301

Title: Zig Zag
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: José Carlos Somoza
Original work: Zigzag
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 484 pp.
ISBN: 9780061193736
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) While studying advanced physics at a prestigious European university, Elisa Robledo was invited to join a select research team on a secret project to manipulate String Theory. It was the opportunity of a lifetime for the eager… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Science fiction, Time-travel fiction

Title: ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, with Related Readings
Translator(s): Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
Author: Tomás Rivera
Original work: ... y no se lo tragó la tierra
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780028179780
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel, originally written in Spanish, explores the lives of young Mexican American migrant workers as they struggle to find hope for a brighter future. 

Title: 259 Leaps, The Last Immortal
Translator(s): Clare E. Sullivan
Author: Alicia Kozameh
Original work: 259 saltos, uno inmortal
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9780930324872
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "Alicia Kozameh’s 259 Leaps is a surprising, engaging, exhilarating book from a gifted writer with a major tale to tell—the contemporary experience of exile not only because of her prison experience in Argentina and her… read more

Title: 2666
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: 2666
Publisher: Picador
City: London
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 898 pp.
ISBN: 9780312429218
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Written in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, '2666' was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: 2666
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: 2666
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 898 pp.
ISBN: 9781433279539
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: 360° diary
Translator(s): Pamela J. DeWeese
Author: Luis Goytisolo
Original work: Diario de 360°
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781433102097
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Luis Goytisolo's novel, 360° Diary, constitutes a reflection on the act of creativity. The novel is in the form of a diary that begins on the author's birthday and concludes one (lunar) year later. Each day of the week is… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: 62 : a Model Kit
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 0811214370
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Julio Cortázar ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: 77
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
Original work: 77
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953892
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's… read more
Literary Genre: Romans

Title: 9 Kilometers
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Claudio Aguilera
Original work: 9 kilómetros
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802856005
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile.Illustrated by Gabriela Lyon
Literary Genre: Picture books for children, Picture books, Livres d'images

Title: A Beautiful Young Woman
Translator(s): Samuel Rutter
Author: Julián López
Original work: Una muchacha muy bella
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9781612196817
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A moving story, powerful, celebratory, and loving."--Laura Cardona, La Nacion. Set in the midst of Argentina's military dictatorship, a poignant and evocative debut novel about family, political violence, and the consequences of… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, History

Title: A Bridge in Darkness
Translator(s): David Landau
Author: Carlos Victoria
Original work: Puente en la oscuridad
Publisher: Pureplay Press
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780971436640
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award winning Cuban author in exile writes of a man in exile who learns of a half brother also living nearby and who must endure the terror and suspense of such a life in hiding.