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): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781594634260
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Short stories
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Amores que atan
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 0375700609
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A man abandoned by his lover writes a letter about each of the 26 women he loved before this woman.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Alirio Díaz Guerra
Original work: Lucas Guevara
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 9781558853256
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Lucas Guevara is the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigre Diaz Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Alirio Díaz Guerra
Original work: Lucas Guevara
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781558853904
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the English translation of Lucas Guevara, the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States, Written by Colombian emigre Alirio Diaz Guerra and originally published in the United States in 1914, the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Derek White
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Calamari Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 44 pp.
ISBN: 9780974605395
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Mac y su contratiempo
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780811227322
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1564782581
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) One day in the life of "Senator Vicente Reinosa, a crooked politician stuck in a gargantuan traffic jam; his neurotic, artistocratic wife; their son Benny, a fascist who is quite literally in love with his Ferrari;… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luis Rafael Sánchez ; translated with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa.
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Fiction
Title: Mad Toy
Author: Roberto Arlt
Original work: El juguete rabioso
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 0822329115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Silvio Astier falls into a life of petty crime as he grows up in 1920s Buenos Aires. 
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Novela argentina -- siglo xx -- traducciones al inglés, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Fran Pintadera
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 40 pp.
ISBN: 9780802855978
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A neighborhood soccer star has a secret plan for his team's big game--a plan even more impressive than his bicycle kicks.Illustrated by Raquel Catalina
Literary Genre: Juvenile works
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Publisher: Aliform
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780970765222
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Alchemist and visionary, the María Magdalena of this novel by Mexican author Beatriz Escalante searches for the philosopher's stone and the secret of eternal life on a long metamorphic pilgrimage through medieval Europe. From a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: Makbara
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785060
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo―widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer―again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction
Translator(s): John King
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 338 pp.
ISBN: 9780374532963
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Translations of 46 short articles comprising a collection of Vargas Llosa's writings from early 1960s-93, chosen for their diversity of topics. Presented in chronological order with some grouped thematically; political and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Malambo
Translator(s): Emmanuel Harris
Author: Lucía Charún-Illescas
Original work: Malambo
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 230 pp.
ISBN: 0974888109
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) At the heart of the novel is Tomason, an African artist living along the Rimac, who paints religious murals for the church and his colonial masters. The intermingling of his Yoruba heritage with his life in a Spanish colony… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Romans
Author: José Ignacio Valenzuela
Original work: Hacia el fin del mundo
Publisher: Deletrea
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780997290431
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Book 1: A captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops.… read more
Title: Malinche
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9780743290357
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Malinalli, a member of a tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she--like so many--believes that the conquistador is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories
Title: Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 074329033
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortez and Malinalli, his Indian intepreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her role as a mediator between two very different languages and… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Esquivel
Original work: Malinche
Publisher: Wheeler Pub.
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9781597222488
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The internationally bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" returns with this extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs, between the conquistador Cortez and his… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Love stories
Translator(s): J. Bret Maney
Author: Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 403 pp.
ISBN: 9781558858817
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 385 pp.
ISBN: 9780914671787
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his country. In 1965, following his… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction
Translator(s): Michael B. Miller
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 314 pp.
ISBN: 1880684845
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramírez encompasses, in a complete metaphor of reality and legend, the entire history of his country. The narrative moves along paths fifty years apart, which inevitably converge. The… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Sergio Ramírez ; translated by Michael B. Miller.