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: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Temporada de huracanes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228039
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Dystopias
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Hipotermia
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781564788733
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills… read more
Translator(s): Nikki Settelmeyer
Author: Rodolfo M. Leitón
Original work: Yo tomé Panamá
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 138 pp.
ISBN: 9781469915265
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) I Took Panama is a short novel based on the life and achievements of the French Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, the man considered by Eric Sevareid to be the "inventor of Panama," and about whom President Theodore Roosevelt… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Wendy Guerra
Original work: Nunca fui primera dama
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 9780062990747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Juan Pablo Villalobos
Original work: Te vendo un perro
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: Los Angeles
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276742
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Fiction, Satirical literature
Title: I'm a Box
Translator(s): Johanna Warren
Author: Natalia Carrero
Original work: Soy una caja
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781611090130
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Nadila is a writer who believes blindly in the redemptive power of literature. In her search for her own voice, she sets to work studying the complete oeuvre of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. As if trying different styles… read more
Translator(s): Mary G. Berg
Author: Martha Rivera
Original work: He olvidado tu nombre
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 1893996735
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) When this novel was first published, Dominican readers were stunned by its dark, poetic power. At last, someone had given voice to the profound sense of loss of national and personal identity felt by young Dominicans in the… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Original work: Yo, el Supremo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 433 pp.
ISBN: 1564782476
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own people. Latin American… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles, Political fiction
Translator(s): Peter Kahn
Author: Tununa Mercado
Original work: En estado de memoria
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9780803231573
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity… read more
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: En ausencia de Blanca
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512531
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 0312421303
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.… read more
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218559
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A compilation of Lorca's poetry and prose, emphasizing Lorca's notion of the duende, the "earth spirit of irrationality and death."Contents:                 Deep song -- Note on the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Original work: En busca de Klingsor
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 414 pp.
ISBN: 9780743201186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
Translator(s): Olivia Maciel
Author: Jorge Volpi Escalante
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "In Spite of teh Dark Silence," presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 127 pp.
ISBN: 0872863743
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In these renegade stories, set in Cuba during the hard times following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people go to work only to find that their jobs no longer exist. They joke and tell stories from the past, live aimlessly… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): John Cullen
Author: Carla Guelfenbein
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 407 pp.
ISBN: 9781590518700
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. She has had a profound effect on those around her: Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his… read more
Literary Genre: Jewish fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 150117813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Farmington Hills, Mich
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 471 pp.
ISBN: 9781432844363
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small… read more
Additional Information: (Large Print Edition)
Literary Genre: Love stories, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Original work: Noche de los tiempos
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
City: Boston
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 641 pp.
ISBN: 9780547547848
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Muñoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): John Hassett
Author: Poli Délano
Original work: En este lugar sagrado
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781893996595
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Canales, raised in the countryside, has come to Santiago to attend university and seek his fortune. He soon falls into a pattern of partying. After he unintentionally kills a man following a session of drinking, he flees… read more