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): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Facsímil
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780143109198
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Named one of the best books of the summer by the Wall Street Journal, Elle, the Huffington Post and Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Fiction, Experimental fiction
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 91 pp.
ISBN: 9781609804183
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nine short stories that reveal the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The stories explore the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luis Negrón ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Mis documentos
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781940450520
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Vertalingen (vorm), Romans (teksten), Nouvelles
Translator(s): Alicia Bralove
Author: Alister Ramírez Márquez
Publisher: Forest Woods Media
City: Montclair, NJ
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 165 pp.
ISBN: 9780938572510
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) My Emerald Green Dress is the riveting account of a woman's thorny yet oddly rewarding life. You will become a part of her emotional journey from the abuse she suffers as an adolescent through her maturation as a self-assured… read more
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Patricio Pron
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9780307700681
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young writer returns to his native Argentina to uncover a mystery surrounding his dying father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man, which he ties to the country's dark political past and his family's underground… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Patricio Pron ; translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, History, Autobiographical fiction, Romans
Title: My Fault
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Mercedes Ron
Original work: Culpa mía
Publisher: Bloom Books
City: Naperville, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 407 pp.
ISBN: 9781728290737
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781944211776
Summary/Reviews: () My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of… read more
Literary Genre: Cuban fiction
Translator(s): Catherine Jagoe
Author: Elsa Osorio
Original work: A veinte años, Luz
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 356 pp.
ISBN: 1582341826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An international bestseller about the blackest period of Argentinean history. Luz, a twenty-year-old Argentinean, is on vacation in Madrid with her husband and newborn son. But Luz has a secret mission-to find her real father.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Original work: My school = Mi escuela
Publisher: Me+Mi Pub.
City: Wheaton, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 18 pp.
ISBN: 9781931398237
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Introduces English and Spanish vocabulary for the people and items in a school.
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Pedro Lemebel
Original work: Tengo miedo torero
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 0802117686
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Carson
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Mis dos mundos
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824283
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Sergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: Nada
Translator(s): Glafyra Ennis
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9780820420646
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Nada has been acclaimed as one of the best accounts of life in post-civil war Spain. It is a work that reflects the psychological and sociological effects of war on a society, particularly on its youth. It also… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History
Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Modern Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780679643456
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Barcelona, in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Andrea, a young university student, moves into a strange, gothic house inhabited by a volatile array of aunts and uncles in order to attend college.Introduction by Mario Vargas… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History
Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Modern Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780812975833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History
Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Vintage
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780099494195
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Andrea, an impoverished 18-year-old girl, travels to Barcelona to study literature at the university. The city imposes its post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. As the story develops, the tension between her… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Original work: Museo animal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216306
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Satire, Chilean fiction, Satirical literature, Black humor, Fiction, Humour noir
Title: Nefando
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Nefando
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Novels, Science fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Lina Meruane
Original work: Sistema nervioso
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450550
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the country of the present but she is from the country of the past, a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Romans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784643
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.Contents:             … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english