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: Dear Rafe = Mi Querido Rafa
Translator(s): Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Mi querido Rafa
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 255 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854567
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Available for the first time in a bilingual format, this addition to the Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trap Series focuses on wealthy ranchers and their domination of the economic and political life of a small city on… read more

Title: Death As a Side Effect
Author: Ana María Shua
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9780803228078
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Ernesto, a man in a dystopic future Argentina, struggles to save his dying father from falling victim to the diabolical health-care system, only to learn that everyone is a patient. "In Death as a Side Effect, Ana… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Dystopias, Science fiction, Fiction

Title: Death in the Andes
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427252
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible.… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Suspense fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: Death in Veracruz
Translator(s): Chandler Thompson
Author: Héctor Aguilar Camín
Original work: Morir en el Golfo
Publisher: Schaffner Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 9781936182923
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel marks the long-awaited arrival in English of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction "Death in Veracruz "is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction, Noir fiction

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: Death Takes Me
Translator(s): Robin Myers, Sarah Booker
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Original work: La muerte me da
Publisher: Hogarth
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9780593737002
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning scrawled on the brick wall beside the body, written in coral nail polish: "… read more
Literary Genre: Feminist fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Novels

Title: Debris
Translator(s): Tanya Huntington Hyde
Author: David Miklos
Original work: La piel muerta
Publisher: Literal Publishing
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9781942307129
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A turn of the screw from magical realism, Debris is a novel where everything is unique, yet repeats itself indefinitely. Alan Pauls.

Title: December Breeze
Translator(s): Isabel Adey, Charlotte Coombe
Author: Marvel Moreno
Original work: En diciembre llegaban las brisas
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 446 pp.
ISBN: 9781609458027
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amid parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia unfurls a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

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: Deer Book
Translator(s): Daniel Borzutzky
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Radius Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 252 pp.
ISBN: 9781955161114
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg's translation Flower World Variations, which Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) first encountered in 1985, Cecilia Vicuña: Deer Book brings together nearly 40 years of the artist's poetry, "… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

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: Dengue Boy
Translator(s): Rahul Bery
Author: Michel Nieva
Original work: La infancia del mundo
Publisher: Astra House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 205 pp.
ISBN: 9781662602658
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words "winter","cold", or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Dystopian fiction, Cyberpunk fiction, Novels

Title: Desert Flowers
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Paul Pen
Original work: La casa entre los cactus
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9781542046053
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rose and Elmer have created an idyllic sanctuary for themselves and their five daughters in Mexico's Baja California desert. Out there in the middle of nowhere, blissfully cut off from the burdens of modern society, they're free… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

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: Dialogue of the Dogs
Translator(s): Lawrence G. Van Velzer, Harriet De Onís
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El coloquio de los perros
Publisher: Foolscap
City: Santa Cruz
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 38 pp.
ISBN: 9780981885322
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The large mastiff Berganza along with his mat-mate Cipión unexpectedly finds himself with the ability to speak. The two dogs have a lot to say and may have only one short night in which to say it, as it is unknown when this gift… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans