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: Short Story Collections by Jorge Luis Borges : The Book of Sand, A Universal History of Infamy, Shakespeare's Memory, Ficciones, The Aleph, Labyrinths
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Books LLC
City: Memphis, TN
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 18 pp.
ISBN: 1158478909
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Shorts : Stories
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

Title: Singing from the Well
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Original work: Celestino antes del alba
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

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
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)

Title: Sirena Selena
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Sirena Selena vestida de pena
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)

Title: Sky of Drums
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

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: Southern Seas
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Los mares del Sur
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

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