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): 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
Translator(s): Michael Harney
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Novelas ejemplares
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 512 pp.
ISBN: 9781624664472
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "Michael Harney's translation of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares is the most authoritative and accurate rendering of Cervantes's classic tales to date and promises to be the translation against which future translations will be… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novellas, Action and adventure fiction, Translations
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
Translator(s): Robert C. Hewick
Author: Angel F. Rojas
Original work: El éxodo de Yangana
Publisher: María Elena Rojas de Ratinoff
City: Unknown
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 457 pp.
ISBN: 9781430328636
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Life in a rural and isolated town in the Ecuadorian mountains. Outsiders occupy the communal land and local people fight them.  
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 081663808
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by John Sturrock ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.
Literary Genre: Translations, Historical fiction
Translator(s): Edward W. Hood
Author: Mario Roberto Morales
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
City: Tempe, Ariz.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 142 pp.
ISBN: 0927534886
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky is a testimonial novel of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s that movingly relates the victimization of the indigenous peoples by the National Army and the guerrillas. Weaving together… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Political fiction
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: Los ingrávidos
Publisher: Granta
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781847085061
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Original work: Los ingrávidos
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9781566893558
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet… read more
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction
Author: María Gabriela Alemán Salvador
Original work: Álbum de familia
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780872868823
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles
Translator(s): David Kurnick
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9781584351344
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Art, Anecdotes, Fiction
Translator(s): Eduardo Jiménez
Author: Bruno Estañol
Original work: Fata morgana
Publisher: Goose River Press
City: Waldoboro, ME
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 1597130109
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184598
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans psychologique
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184604
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Romans psychologique
Translator(s): Ryan Fred Long
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Purdue University Press
City: West Lafayette, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781557534873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Berta Savariego
Original work: Fiesta de abril
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781643784168
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Originally published in Spanish in 1981, Fiesta in April is a story about political prisoners, and the abuses and psychological torture they face. As opposed to using conventional prose, the author weaves dramatic poetry into a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations
Title: Final Exam
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: El examen
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 237 pp.
ISBN: 0811214176
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this "allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which [the author] was about to be permanently self-exiled," Cortázar tells the story of Juan and Clara who should be studying for their exam, but… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction
Title: Firefly
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Severo Sarduy
Original work: Cocuyo
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781935744641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying,… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction