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: Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 115 pp.
ISBN: 9781400095940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is… read more
Literary Genre: Miscellaneous fiction, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction

Title: Memories of my Melancholy Whores (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9780739325605
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the… read more
Literary Genre: Miscellaneous fiction, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction

Title: Memories of Underdevelopment : A Novel from Cuba
Translator(s): Al Schaller
Author: Edmundo Desnoes
Original work: Memorias del subdesarrollo
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 110 pp.
ISBN: 1891270184
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Malabre is a prosperous Havana businessman whose life has been appropriated by the Cuban revolution. Though his wife, family and friends flee the country in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, he is forced to confront his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Mestizo
Author: Ricardo Feierstein
Original work: Mestizo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 335 pp.
ISBN: 0826321151
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) First published in Argentina in 1994, this novel is a detective story in which the police try to solve an assassination and a lost man tries to reconstruct his identity. These two searches are set against the story of four… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Mexican Short Stories = Cuentos Mexicanos
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9780486465395
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Greatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mexico : A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): C. M. Mayo
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513153
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of Mexico offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mexique : A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War
Translator(s): Elisa Amado
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Mexique: el nombre del barco
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802855459
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children boarded a ship called the Mexique and sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. This would just be a short stay, they thought. They'd be home in a few… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, History, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: Mi País Inventado
Translator(s): Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Mi país inventado : un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780060545659
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The author explores the landscapes and people of her native country; recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile; and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.

Title: Microfictions
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Ana María Shua
Original work: Short stories. Selections
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1196 pp.
ISBN: 9780803220911
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Steven J. Stewart.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Mist: a tragicomic novel
Translator(s): Warner Fite
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: Niebla
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 0252068947
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's… read more
Additional Information: Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction

Title: Mona
Translator(s): Adam J. Morris
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Original work: Mona
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9780374211899
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden.
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Monastery
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Original work: Monasterio
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1158 pp.
ISBN: 9781934137833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Monsieur Pain
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Monsieur Pain
Publisher: New Directions Book
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, when his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, Occult fiction

Title: Monstruary
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9780810119758
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past. We follow… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; ríos, julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001; online version:; ríos,, Julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001

Title: Monstruary
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Publisher: A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 0375408231
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; ríos, julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001; online version:; ríos,, Julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001

Title: Montano's Malady
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: El mal de Montano
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216289
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The narrator of Montano's Malady is a writer who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Bildungsromans, Translations, Journaux intimes fictifs

Title: Mother Nature
Translator(s): Walter Borenstein
Author: Emilia Pardo Bazán
Original work: La Madre Naturaleza
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9780838757970
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mother Nature is certainly Emilia Pardo Bazan's greatest contribution to the Realistic/ Naturalistic Spanish novel of her time, and represents her literary powers at the very height of her career as a writer. It has been said… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Love stories, Romans

Title: Mourning
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Original work: Duelo
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781942658443
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland… read more
Literary Genre: Jewish fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Guatemalan fiction

Title: Mouthful of Birds : Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184628
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring. In the tradition of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mr. Witt Among the Rebels
Translator(s): Peter Chalmers Mitchell
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 367 pp.
ISBN: 9781432566944
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Satirical literature