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: Mephisto's Waltz : Stories
Translator(s): George Henson
Author: Sergio Pitol
Original work: Los mejores cuentos
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920831
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Selected by the author, each story is a glimpse into the works that first gained Pitol his status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers and showcases the evolution of his unique literary style.
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Mestizo
Author: Ricardo Feierstein
Original work: Mestizo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 335 pp.
ISBN: 0826321151
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) First published in Argentina in 1994, this novel is a detective story in which the police try to solve an assassination and a lost man tries to reconstruct his identity. These two searches are set against the story of four… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Mexican Short Stories = Cuentos Mexicanos
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9780486465395
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Greatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mexico : A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): C. M. Mayo
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513153
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico has long been the top travel destination for Americans. But until now, there has not been such a panoramic vision of Mexico offered by some of Mexico's finest contemporary writers of fiction and literary prose. Here are… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mexico : Sunlight & Shadows, Short Stories & Essays by Mexico Writers
Translator(s): Mikel Miller , Michael Hogan, Linton Robinson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Egret Books
City: San Diego, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781515232100
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of ... fiction and non-fiction set in Mexico and written by contemporary authors, all but five of whom live full time in the country. The topics explore contrasts-- many extol life in Mexico's abundant sunlight--… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mexique : A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War
Translator(s): Elisa Amado
Author: María José Ferrada
Original work: Mexique: el nombre del barco
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802855459
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children boarded a ship called the Mexique and sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. This would just be a short stay, they thought. They'd be home in a few… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, History, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: Mi País Inventado
Translator(s): Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Mi país inventado : un paseo nostálgico por Chile
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9780060545659
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The author explores the landscapes and people of her native country; recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile; and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.

Title: Microfictions
Translator(s): Steven J. Stewart
Author: Ana María Shua
Original work: Short stories. Selections
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1196 pp.
ISBN: 9780803220911
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Steven J. Stewart.
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Milena, Or, The Most Beautiful Femur in the World
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Jorge Zepeda Patterson
Original work: Milena, o, el fémur más bello del mundo
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 411 pp.
ISBN: 1632061252
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Milena's lover and protector, the chief of Mexico's most important newspaper, dies in her arms, she knows it's only a matter of time before the ruthless thugs behind the human-trafficking ring that kidnapped her from her… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
Translator(s): Daniel Shapiro
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9780997228717
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mist, Or, Niebla
Translator(s): Marciano Guerrero
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: Niebla
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781494971977
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Mist (1914) is not a novel, but rather a ‘Nivola,’ a neologism invented by Miguel de Unamuno to taunt his critics. We cannot say it’s a new genre, because no other author has ever written a 'Nivola.' What is certain is that… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: author: Miguel de Unamuno ; edited by Marciano Guerrero.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction

Title: Mist: a tragicomic novel
Translator(s): Warner Fite
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: Niebla
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN: 0252068947
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's… read more
Additional Information: Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction

Title: Mona
Translator(s): Adam J. Morris
Author: Pola Oloixarac
Original work: Mona
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9780374211899
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden.
Literary Genre: Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans

Title: Monastery
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Original work: Monasterio
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781934137833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Monsieur Pain
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Monsieur Pain
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218894
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A Bolaño classic. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the mesmerist Pierre Pain… read more
Literary Genre: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, Occult fiction

Title: Monsieur Pain
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Monsieur Pain
Publisher: New Directions Book
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, when his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Paranormal fiction, Fiction, Occult fiction

Title: Monstruary
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9780810119758
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past. We follow… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; ríos, julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001; online version:; ríos,, Julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001

Title: Monstruary
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Julián Ríos
Publisher: A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 0375408231
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; ríos, julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001; online version:; ríos,, Julián; monstruario english; monstruary; 1st american ed; new york : a knopf, 2001

Title: Montano's Malady
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: El mal de Montano
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216289
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The narrator of Montano's Malady is a writer who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Bildungsromans, Translations, Journaux intimes fictifs

Title: Monteverde : Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Lola Robles
Original work: El informe Monteverde
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 92 pp.
ISBN: 9781619761179
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Terran scholar Rachel Monteverde journeys to Aanuk, a paradisiacal planet famous for both its beaches and the generosity and joy of life of its nomadic inhabitants. The Aanukiens are not the only people on the planet, however:… read more