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: Mortal Flesh : The Last Hero of Pompeii
Translator(s): Ana Costa Alongi
Author: Ana Costa Alongi
Original work: Cuerpo mortal : el último héroe de Pompeya
Publisher: Sigillum Publishers
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780983848561
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for… read more

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: Mourning for Papá : A Story of a Syrian-Jewish Family in Mexico
Translator(s): Kay S. Garcia
Author: Jacobo Sefami
Original work: Los dolientes
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 9781888205312
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using the death of the father as a point of departure, the novel is divided into ten chapters, a structure that is particularly effective because the chapters correspond to the ten days that begin on the Jewish New Year and end… read more

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

Title: Multiple Choice
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

Title: Mundo Cruel : Stories
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
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Murder in the Central Committee
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Asesinato en el comité central
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Why me?" asks Pepe Carvalho. "Because you're an ex-communist. Because you know who we are, what we're like, where we come from, and where we're going." At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room… read more

Title: My Documents
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

Title: My Emerald Green Dress
Translator(s): Alicia Bralove
Author: Alister Ramírez Márquez
Original work: Mi vestido verde esmeralda
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

Title: My Father's Ghost is Climbing in the Rain
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Patricio Pron
Original work: El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
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
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, History, Autobiographical fiction, Romans

Title: My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Patricio Pron
Original work: El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 212 pp.
ISBN: 9780307745422
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth--not only about his father but an entire generation--comes to light, the… read more
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

Title: My Favorite Girlfriend Was A French Bulldog
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Original work: Mi novia preferida fue un bulldog francés
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

Title: My Name is Light
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

Title: My School = Mi Escuela
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.

Title: My Tender Matador
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

Title: My Two Worlds
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