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): Kristina Cordero
Author: Eduardo Mendicutti
Original work: Siete contra Georgia
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 185 pp.
ISBN: 0802140378
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven Against Georgia is a group of "testimonials" in which seven flamboyant Spanish gay men, adopting such over-the-top noms de guerre as Herr Betty Honey and Pamela Poodle, respond to sodomy laws by sending their stories of sex… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Samanta Schweblin
Original work: Siete casas vacías
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9780525541394
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Thrillers (fiction), Horror fiction, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Mara Faye Lethem
Author: Jorge Julián
Original work: Siete Pablos
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781592702534
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven vignettes of seven young boys named Pablo living throughout the world.
Literary Genre: Juvenile works, Picture books for children
Translator(s): Barbara F. Ichiishi
Author: Esther Tusquets
Publisher: Host Publications
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 9780924047893
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the… read more
Title: Severina
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: Severina
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 9780300196092
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper… read more
Literary Genre: Guatemalan fiction -- translations into english, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9780312422707
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 0374261903
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Counter A stunning debut by one of Mexico's most dazzling younger writers. In 1916, Victor Kretzchmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Anne McLean
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Amphitryon
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9780743207317
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During World War II, General Thadeus Dreyer is put in charge of the Amphitryon Project, training doubles to stand in for leading Nazis at dangerous public events. What bearing does this have on the arrest of Adolf Eichmann in… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Michael Ugarte
Author: Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 179 pp.
ISBN: 9780974888125
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this bildungsroman, Donato Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction
Title: Shantytown
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Villa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221580
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Noir fiction, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Translator(s): Jay Miskowiec
Author: Ana Clavel
Original work: Cuerpo náufrago
Publisher: Aliform Pub.
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 151 pp.
ISBN: 9780981707204
Summary/Reviews: () Translation edited by Juan Arciniega.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Author: Sergio D. Elizondo
Original work: Muerte en una estrella
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 9781611928587
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans, Novellas
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 215 pp.
ISBN: 9780486436821
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country's true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen stories by five outstanding… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Alberto Fuguet
Original work: Cortos
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 327 pp.
ISBN: 9780060817145
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Brilliantly chronicles the occasionally bizarre, unceasingly turbulent existence of the geographically and emotionally displaced.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Simone
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Eduardo Lalo
Original work: Simone
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago ; London
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 159 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207483
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A disillusioned writer in San Juan finds himself stalked by a Chinese immigrant student, and as the two realize that they share a similar plight, they move towards bitter-sweet collaborations in passion, grief, literature, and… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780140094442
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9780312252274
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Publisher: Picador USA
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 0312252277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Discovered By Martha Divine In The Backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Literary Genre: Erotic stories, Erotic fiction, Fiction, Translations (form), Novels (texts)
Translator(s): W. Nick Hill
Author: Ana Gloria Moya
Original work: Cielo de tambores
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781931896252
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This story of love and revolution takes place during the Argentine struggle for independence (1810-1820) and focuses on the character of the national hero, Manuel Belgrano. Belgrano's story is told through the voices of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana Gloria Moya ; translated by W. Nick Hill.
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Translations