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: How I Became a Nun
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Cómo me hice monja
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 117 pp.
ISBN: 0811216314
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: How to Order the Universe
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Kramp
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781951142308
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: How to Reach the Moon
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Nicolás Schuff
Original work: Cómo llegar a la luna
Publisher: Amazon Crossing Kids
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 40 pp.
ISBN: 9781662522963
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Emilio loves spending vacations out in the forest at his abuelo's house. The woods are mysterious, and Abuelo and Emilio can dine outside by the light of a lantern every night. And then, best of all, Abuelo tells his fantastical… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction

Title: How to Turn into a Bird
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: El hombre del cartel
Publisher: Tin House
City: Portland, OR
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 216 pp.
ISBN: 9781953534460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Novels, Romans

Title: Human Matter : A Fiction
Translator(s): Eduardo Aparicio
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: El material humano
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781477316467
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Historical fiction

Title: Human Sacrifices
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: María Fernanda Ampuero
Original work: Sacrificios humanos
Publisher: The Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 9781558612983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Human Sacrifices is a short story collection by Ecuadorian author María Fernanda Ampuero that explores the horrors of inequality, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against working-class women and children under… read more
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Horror fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Humiliation : Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Paulina Flores
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781948226240
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell, present us with a Chile we seldom see in fiction: port cities marked by poverty and brimming with… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Hunting the Last Wild Man
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Angela Vallvey
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781583224885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Candela lives in a house of women nine to be exact: six sisters, their mother, their grandmother, and their rich aunt Mary, who owns the house. Candela has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another before… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Hurricane Season
Translator(s): Sophie Hughes
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

Title: Hypothermia
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Álvaro 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

Title: I Am Not a Monster
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Carme Chaparro
Original work: No soy un monstruo
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 297 pp.
ISBN: 9781503905375
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicolás Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core. Two years later, another young child - similar in age and appearance to Nicolás - disappears from the… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: I Am Rome : A Novel of Julius Caesar
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Santiago Posteguillo
Original work: Roma soy yo : la verdadera historia de Julio César
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 624 pp.
ISBN: 9780593598047
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning.… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Novels

Title: I Don't Believe in Poetry
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Original work: No creo en la poesía
Publisher: Alliteration Publishing
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9798989624188

Title: I Gave You All I Had
Translator(s): Nadia Benabid
Author: Zoé Valdés
Original work: Te di la vida entera
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781611459326
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cuca Martinez is the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she… read more

Title: I Took Panama
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

Title: I Wait in Silence
Author: Tomás Fernández-Travieso
Original work: Epero en silencio
Publisher: Alexandria Library Publishing House
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 194 pp.
ISBN: 9781544829524
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The hope of an illusion transpires through the last twenty years of Boris’s life. Having escaped Cuba for executing his colonel, the young counterintelligence lieutenant takes refuge in the United States to live a life without… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: I Was Never the First Lady
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

Title: I Wish You Could Hear The Song I'm Listening To As I Write This
Translator(s): Jeannine Marie Pitas
Author: Manuela Espinal Solano
Original work: Quisiera que oyeran la canción que escucho cuando escribo esto
Publisher: Mosaic Press
City: Ontario
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 69 pp.
ISBN: 9781771615242
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) I Wish You Could Hear the Song I'm Listening to As I Write This... explores the classic tale of adolescent rebellion but it is more complex. How do young people deal with the apparent universal desire for attention and… read more

Title: I'll Sell You a Dog
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