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: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El Reino del Dragón de Oro
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 437 pp.
ISBN: 9780061825125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) ixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy… read more

Title: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El Reino del Dragón de Oro
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 437 pp.
ISBN: 9780060589424
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy… read more

Title: Klail City
Translator(s): Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Klail City y sus alrededores
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9780934770545
Other titles: Klail City - Klail City y sus alrededores
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The second installment in Rolando Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series returns to South Texas, where Mexicans and Anglos share an uneasy coexistence. Don Aureliano Mora waits three years for justice… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans

Title: La Bastarda
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Trifonia Melibea Obono
Original work: La bastarda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York City
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932238
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: La Bastarda
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Trifonia Melibea Obono
Original work: La bastarda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 104 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: La Edad De Oro = The Golden Age. No. 1
Author: José Martí
Original work: La edad de oro
Publisher: Editorial Voces de Hoy
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780989829465

Title: La Grande
Translator(s): Steve Dolph
Author: Juan José Saer
Original work: La grande
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 501 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) La Grande--Saer's final novel, which is also a fantastic entry-point to his world--centers around two related stories: that of Gutiérrez, his sudden departure from Argentina thirty years before, and his equally mysterious return… read more

Title: La Vida Doble : A Novel
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Arturo Fontaine Talavera
Original work: La vida doble
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven, CT
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780300176698
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture… read more

Title: Larva : Midsummer Night's Babel
Translator(s): Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Babel de una noche de San Juan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 585 pp.
ISBN: 1564783685
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Las Luces de Septiembre
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: Las luces de septiembre
Publisher: Harper Collins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 317 pp.
ISBN: 9780061724336

Title: Last Evenings on Earth
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 0811216349
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.Contents:                Sensini ; Henry Simon Leprince ; Enrique Martín ; A literary… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Last Night of Carnival and Other Stories
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis Romero
Original work: El momento del unicornio
Publisher: Leaping Dog Press
City: San Jose, CA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 1587750155
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middle class values of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Last Words on Earth
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Javier Serena
Original work: Últimas palabras en la Tierra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830324
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack… read more
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Picaresque fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans picaresques, Romans

Title: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Original work: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9780486414317
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long considered by many scholars to be the first picaresque novel (or the precursor of all such novels), Lazarillo de Tormes made its initial appearance in Spain in the middle of the 16th century, on the heels of an era of novels… read more

Title: Lazarillo de Tormes ; and, the Grifter (El Buscón) : Two Novels of the Low Life in Golden Age Spain
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Desconocido
Original work: Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 179 pp.
ISBN: 9781624663444
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's mordant El Buscón. Frye's translations are… read more

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 006075155X
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751555
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Leapfrog : And Other Stories
Translator(s): Anna Kushner
Author: Guillermo Rosales
Original work: El juego de la viola
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219419
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes. The… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Short stories

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781590513224
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: Learning to Lose
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: David Trueba
Original work: Saber perder
Publisher: Portobello
City: London
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 579 pp.
ISBN: 9781846272059
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows four characters through the maze of contemporary Madrid as a combination of a murder, a car crash and secret affair causes their lives to intersect and changes the course of their individual destinies.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction