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: Sleepy Stories
Translator(s): Alicia López
Author: Mario Levrero
Original work: Cuentos cansados
Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 28 pp.
ISBN: 9781939810847
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.Illustrations by Diego Bianki.
Literary Genre: Picture books for children, Picture books, Fictional work, Fiction, Juvenile works, Romans, Livres d'images

Title: So I Won't Forget
Translator(s): Emily Maguire
Author: Francisca Suárez Coalla
Original work: Para que no se me olvide
Publisher: Editorial Campana
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 120 pp.
ISBN: 9780972561174
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Three generations, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian women tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories, retold by Paquita Suarez Coalla. The ferocious Franco dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War,… read more

Title: Soldiers of Salamis
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Javier Cercas
Original work: Soldados de Salamina
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 1582343845
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners face a firing squad. Among them is Rafael Sánchez Mazas-writer, fascist, and founder of the Spanish Falange. As the machine guns begin to fire… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Solitaire of Love
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: Solitario de amor
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 111 pp.
ISBN: 0822325039
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Cristina Peri Rossi ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction

Title: Some Clouds
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Son of the Murdered Maid
Original work: Hijo de opa!
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780773472112

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780593190135
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Maclehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781529405446
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Space Invaders
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona Fernández
Original work: Space invaders
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 70 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Chilean fiction -- translations into english, Novellas, Translations, Social problem fiction, Political fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, History, Historical fiction

Title: Spaces in Between
Translator(s): Rose Mary Salum, Debra D. Andrist
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Literal Pub Inc.
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9780977028719
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spaces in Between is a collection of short stories. Social commentary is expressed not through a direct invasive dialogue, but rather by evocative introspections of prose directly linked to the political and economical status… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Lisa Dillman
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories, many of which appear in English for the first time, transport the reader through Spain's… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century = Cuentos Españoles de Fines del Siglo XIX
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish stories of the late nineteenth century = Cuentos españoles de fines del siglo XIX
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9780486445052
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero," by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend… read more

Title: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos Españoles del Romanticismo : Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos españoles del romanticismo: Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780486447155
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These 12 classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic Era, they remain popular with readers of every… read more

Title: Spanish-American Short Stories = Cuentos Hispanoamericanos
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780486441238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collects seventeen short stories written by prominent Latin American authors from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with their English translations on facing pages.Contents:       … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Mario Benedetti
Original work: Primavera con una esquina rota
Publisher: The New Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781620974902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: State of Siege
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: El sitio de los sitios
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864061
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These… read more

Title: Still Born
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: La hija única
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781639730032
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Romans

Title: Stories of Enchantment From Nineteenth-Century Spain
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9780838755334
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories of Enchantment consists of seventeen stories by nine of nineteenth-century Spain's most well-known authors, and demonstrates convincingly that, although it had no Charles Perrault and no brothers Grimm, it maintained a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Stories of Life and Death
Translator(s): Antonio T. De Nicolás
Author: Juan Ramón Jiménez
Original work: Historias y cuentos
Publisher: ToExcel
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 0595002692
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Over one hundred vignettes in Stories of Life and Death create haunting images of the author's favorite subjects: women in love, children coping with tragedy, eccentrics, the emotions of compassion, bitterness, envy and longing… read more

Title: Stories of Little Women & Grown-Up Girls
Translator(s): Emily Maguire
Author: Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Original work: Historias de mujeres grandes y chiquitas
Publisher: Editorial Campana
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780972561167
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Love, death, betrayal, and sex intertwine and whirl with New York City and Havana beating in the background. In unpredictable tales woven with psychological and political significance, the protagonists struggle to transform… read more