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: News from the Empire
Translator(s): Stella T Clark
Author: Fernando del Paso
Original work: Noticias del Imperio
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign [Ill.]
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 704 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: News from the Empire
Author: Fernando del Paso
Original work: Noticias del Imperio
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 704 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: Nietzsche on His Balcony
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Federico en su balcón
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 332 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971583
Summary/Reviews: (Page 4 of cover) On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Night Watch
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: Reinaldo Bragado Bretaña
Original work: La noche vigilada
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
City: Tempe, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 1931010161
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Alberto has endured political imprisonment for writings unacceptable to the Castro regime in Cuba. His nocturnal wanderings in Havana lead him from a colonial cafe, where he begins an intense romance with a young woman, to an… read more

Title: Nights in Heaven
Translator(s): María Teresa Guzmán
Author: María Teresa Guzmán
Original work: Noches en La Gloria
Publisher: American Literary Press
City: Baltimore, MD
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9781561677757
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A truly unforgettable story, "Nights in Heaven" is a splendidly crafted tale filled with suspense, adventure, and the rich beauty of the Mexican wilderness. This thoroughly absorbing novel set in 20th Century Mexico is a blend… read more

Title: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird : Stories
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María Bazterrica
Original work: Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781668012666
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans

Title: No Happy Ending
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: No habrá final feliz
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580387
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.

Title: No Happy Ending : A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Detective Novel
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: No habrá final feliz
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 1590580389
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.

Title: No Man's Land : Selected Stories
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864290
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stories from northern Mexico, the apocalyptic urban zones and desert landscapes just south of the border.Contents:                 Real life ; The darkest night ; Just don't take the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: No One Said A Word
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Paula Varsavsky
Original work: Nadie alzaba la voz
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781609402693
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It is the late 1970s and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its “Dirty Wars,” as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in Buenos… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: No One Said a Word
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Paula Varsavsky
Original work: Nadie alzaba la voz
Publisher: Ontario Review Press
City: Princeton, NJ
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 0865380996
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Luz Goldman, the narrator of No One Said a Word, grows up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the seventies when Argentina is ruled by a military dictatorship. But politics is only peripheral in Paula… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: No One Will See Me Cry
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 1880684918
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, Psychological fiction, Romans

Title: No One Writes to the Colonel : and Other Stories
Translator(s): J. S. Bernstein
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Perennial Classics
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9780060751579
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: No Place for Heroes
Translator(s): Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Demasiados héroes
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780385519915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lorenza and her son, Mateo, return to Buenos Aires as they try to find Ramon, Mateo's father, who was a political radical with Lorenza in Argentina's "Dirty War," as Lorenza deals with her memories of the past and Mateo, who is… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: No Turning Back
Translator(s): Jessica Knauss
Author: Lidia Falcón
Original work: Camino sin retorno
Publisher: Loose Leaves Publishing
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 293 pp.
ISBN: 1624320023
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1986: The dictatorship is over and life is free and easy. But what if you can't forget the seventies? Elisa's troubled past comes back to her in the form of her ex-husband, Arnau, who needs her help to exonerate a… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Historical fiction, Fiction, Romans

Title: Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
Translator(s): Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 0802116655
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
Translator(s): Carol Christensen, Thomas Christensen
Author: José Manuel Prieto González
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780802138651
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories

Title: Noli Me Tángere = Touch Me Not
Translator(s): Harold Augenbraum
Author: José Rizal
Original work: Noli me tángere
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 444 pp.
ISBN: 0143039695
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, History, Fiction, Romance fiction, Translations, Love stories, Romans

Title: Norte: a novel
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: Norte
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207209
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico/US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction

Title: Not Even the Dead
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Juan Gómez Bárcena
Original work: Ni siquiera los muertos
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830676
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Romans