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: Strange Forces
Translator(s): Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Publisher: Latin America Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 1891270052
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twelve stories of the macabre and paranormal.
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Leopoldo Lugones ; translated with a foreword by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fantasy fiction, Nouvelles

Title: Strange Pilgrims : Twelve Stories
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: Doce cuentos peregrinos
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 1400034698
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The 12 stories in this shimmering collection poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of narrative sorcery… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Such Small Hands
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: Las manos pequeñas
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, California
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492006
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Sudden Death
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Muerte súbita
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9781594633461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the… read more
Literary Genre: Tennis stories, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Sun Inventions ; Perfumes of Carthage : Two Novellas
Translator(s): Phyllis Silverstein, Johnny Payne
Author: Teresa Porzecanski
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 0826321801
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Teresa Porzecanski writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Teresa Porzecanski ; Sun inventions translated by Johnny Payne ; Perfumes of Carthage (Perfumes de Cartago) translated by Phyllis Silverstein ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Uruguayan fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Super Extra Grande
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: José Miguel Sánchez Gómez
Original work: Superextragrande
Publisher: Restless Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060563
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction

Title: Sweet and Delectable
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Jacinto Octavio Picón
Original work: Dulce y sabrosa
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg/London
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 0838754562
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This translation makes available to the English-reading public another treatment of that most famous of Spanish literary creations: the Don Juan figure. This is a Don Juan in decline who will come to grips with his emptiness… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Jacinto Octavio Picón ; translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek ; introduction by Noël M. Valis.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Sweet Scent of Death
Translator(s): John Page
Author: Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Original work: Un dulce olor a muerte
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780743296793
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramó n Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: Swift As Desire
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Anchor Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 038572151
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Esquivel ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Swift As Desire
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780385721516
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Swift As Desire : Large Print Edition
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 317 pp.
ISBN: 9780375431425
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel based on the life of the author's father follows the fortunes of don Jubilo, a telegraph operator, as his life parallels the birth, rise, and eventual fall of the telegraph.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Symbolic Tales : A Compilation of Short Stories
Translator(s): Miguel Ochoa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780595307630
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A mediocre man struggles in the land of the successful. A celebrity who falls in disgrace finally finds "escape" from his torments. The obsessive search of a man for his lost shadow. A couple of brothers hunt for an ancient… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Tales from the Cuban Empire
Author: Antonio José Ponte
Original work: Cuentos de todas partes del imperio
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 0872864073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Short stories

Title: Tales from the Tortilla Curtain, and Other Stories
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
City: Denver, CO
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9781432704933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Tales of Love and Distance
Translator(s): House of Writers / Casa de Escritores Inc.
Author: Javier Amaya
Original work: Cuentos de amor y distancia
Publisher: La Cigarra Editions
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 45 pp.
ISBN: 9780967922638
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Javier Amaya depicts the experience of the human being who struggles with social and economic differences and the ultimate consequences of these differences: war. Fierce, incomprehensible, and useless wars that are the result of… read more

Title: Tales of the Shadowmen: The Modern Babylon
Translator(s): Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Black Coat Press
City: Encino, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 253 pp.
ISBN: 9781932983364
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 Mask of the monster / Matthew Baugh -- Cadavres exquis / Bill Cunningham -- When Lemmy met Jules / Terrance Dicks -- The vanishing devil / Win Scott Eckert… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Talking to Ourselves
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: Hablar solos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9780374167530
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Domestic fiction

Title: Tarzan's Tonsillitis
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 0375421432
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traces the relationship of a Peruvian composer and a cultured Salvadoran from 1960s Paris to 1980s California.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alfredo Bryce Echenique ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.
Literary Genre: Epistolary fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; bryce echenique, alfredo, 1939-; amigdalitis de tarzán english; tarzan's tonsillitis; 1st american ed; new york : pantheon, Books, ©2001

Title: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9781846686672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Tears of Amber
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: Peregrinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 469 pp.
ISBN: 9781542027915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / historical / general, Fiction / sagas, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, War fiction, Mexica fiction -- translations into english