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: 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

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

Title: Natives
Translator(s): Michael Ugarte
Author: Inongo vi Makomè
Original work: Nativas
Publisher: Phoneme Media
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419453
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Having achieved professional success in Barcelona at the expense of family life, best friends Montse and Roser are dissatisfied and sexually frustrated. Over Catalan champagne and cognac, the two friends hatch a casual plan to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Natural Histories
Translator(s): J. T. Lichtenstein
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: El matrimonio de los peces rojos
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9781609805517
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In her precise writing, subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. In each tale Nettel creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories -- genre, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Natural 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

Title: Navidad & Matanza
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Carlos Labbé
Original work: Navidad y matanza
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 92 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824924
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A genre-bending novel about two missing children, a fear-inducing drug called "hadon," and seven scientists collaborating on a novel-game.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Nazi Literature in the Americas
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Literatura Nazi en America
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: Necropolis
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Santiago Gamboa
Original work: Necrópolis
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9781609450731
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An author attends a conference featuring a series of extraordinary life stories, where the story of formerly troubled evangelical pastor José Maturana captures his imagination and causes him to seek answers when Maturana is later… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish literature -- translations into english, Fictional work, Thrillers (fiction), Novels, Fiction, Romans

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

Title: Nervous System
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

Title: Never Any End to Paris
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: París no se acaba nunca
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218139
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells… read more

Title: New Cuban Fiction
Translator(s): John O'Brien, E. J. Van Lanen, Mary G. Berg
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

Title: New Islands and Other Stories
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780374528249
Summary/Reviews: () With a preface by Jorge Luis Borges
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: New Short Fiction from Cuba
Translator(s): Jacqueline Loss, Esther Katheryn Whitfield
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780810124066
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english