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: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Dublinesca
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219617
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired by a dream, a retired publisher spontaneously embarks on a trip to the Dublin cemetery in which a character from Joyce's "Ulysses" was buried, where he meets a mysterious person who resembles Samuel Beckett.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Author: Beatriz Salcedo-Strumpf
Publisher: Author House
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781418425609
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Played out against the background of today's instant communication via internet, this a story of a woman who comes face to face with emotional and cultural questions when a chance meeting with a lover from her past reopens… read more
Title: Eartheater
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Dolores Reyes
Original work: Cometierra
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780062987730
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Literary fiction
Title: Eartheater
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Dolores Reyes
Original work: Cometierra
Publisher: HarperVia
City: London
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9780062987754
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, 'Eartheater' is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Fiction, Magic realist fiction, Novels, Literary fiction
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9780820474359
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Eduardo López Bago
Publisher: Stockcero
City: Doral, FL
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9781934768648
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) El Cura. (Caso de Incesto) Novela medico social (The Priest. Case of Incest. Medical-Social Novel) (1885) constitutes, together with La Regenta (1884-1885) by Leopoldo Alas, a.k.a. Clarin, one of the best Spanish examples of… read more
Translator(s): Harold Augenbraum
Author: José Rizal
Original work: El filibusterismo
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 339 pp.
ISBN: 9780143106395
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Rizal ; translated [from the Spanish] with an introduction and notes by Harold Augenbraum.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
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): Jay Noden
Author: Benjamin Villegas
Original work: El Paso
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050611
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a state rife with caricatures, Benjamin Villegas' "anti-biography" explores the history of a Texas border-town punk band too good to be true. In 2015, Benjamin Villegas traveled to Texas in an attempt to write the biography of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
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, MN
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894944
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences, tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop skip of an acrostic? Empty Set is a… 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: 9781566895460
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): Rebecca Marquis
Author: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Original work: Dulcinea encantada
Publisher: Lexington Books
City: Lanham, MD
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9781793634832
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This annotated translation of Enchanted Dulcinea by Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman features a narrator traveling through memories, times, and places. The author's mystical novel exemplifies crypto-Judaism and exile in… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels
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
Title: Enfermario
Translator(s): Jennifer Donovan
Author: Gabriela Torres Olivares
Original work: Enfermario
Publisher: Les Figues Press
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 9781934254653
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These are fifteen stories of what it feels like to be different. The author writes about her characters' bodies, desires, and experiences. With a shifting gaze, they explore the profundity of otherness, seeking out both… read more
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