On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Yuri Herrera
Original work: Diez planetas
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781644452233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Philosophical fiction, Science fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Ten tales
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 0838754368
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María Bazterrica
Original work: Cadáver exquisito
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1982150920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Dystopias, Romans
Translator(s): José León Sánchez
Author: José León Sánchez
Original work: Tenochtitlán
Publisher: Roca-Basa Productions Inc
City: Tampa, FL
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 401 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Terra nostra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 785 pp.
ISBN: 1564782875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Translations, Romans
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: La ciudad ausente
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 0822325578
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition todemocracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Carlos Franz
Original work: Desierto
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 375 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701943
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Just before the coup d'etat that overturned Chile's govenrment under Allende, a young, idealistic judge is posted to a provincial center in the vast northern desert. After the coup, the town is occupied by the military, which… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Carlos Franz ; translated by Leland H. Chambers.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Political fiction, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Jessica Sequeira
Author: Daniel Guebel
Original work: El absoluto
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 464 pp.
ISBN: 9781644211601
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "he Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): James H. Montgomery
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Ne Plus Ultra Pub.
City: [Place of publication not identified]
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 703 pp.
ISBN: 1419626914
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An up-to-date translation of Cervatnes' classic 17th century novel of an old man who goes somewhat insane and believes he is a knight errant.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Álvaro Mutis
Publisher: New York Review of Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 700 pp.
ISBN: 0940322919
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death,… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Short stories, Translations, Adventure fiction, Picaresque literature, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Daniel Venegas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 1558852972
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The hapless journey of the poor farmer Don Chipote de Jesús Maria Domínguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States--where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust off… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Venegas ; translated from the Spanish by Ethriam Cash Brammer ; with a new introduction by Nicolás Kanellos.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: State Street Press
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780681453906
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Publisher: Yax Te' Foundation
City: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781886502383
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A historical and satirical novel whose principal character is an American adventurer who suddenly turns up in a Maya community in the highlands of western Guatemala. Apart from the impact that he causes in the community by his… read more
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Almudena Grandes
Original work: Las edades de Lulú
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 238 pp.
ISBN: 9781583226889
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before "The Sexual Life of Catherine M", Grandes was dazzling the literary world with this highly charged novel about a young woman embarking on a series of sexual adventures. Lulu's journey begins with the night she loses… read more
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Susana Fortes
Original work: El amante albanés
Publisher: McPherson & Co.
City: Kingston, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780929701790
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Under Enver Hoxha's dictatorship Albania was the most isolated and paranoid European state, where life could only be lived in complicity with its tyranny, or in clandestine resistance. The villa of state hero Zanum Radjik on… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0142437883
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Stephen A. Sadow
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 278 pp.
ISBN: 0826328989
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Algarrobos Quartet is a series of four short, enigmatic novels set on the northern pampas of Argentina. In the town of Algarrobos, the rules of the game are mysterious, and terrible events occur without warning. Unexpected… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Lucy Greaves
Author: Mamen Sánchez
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 324 pp.
ISBN: 9781501118852
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fiendishly fun and charming novel echoing the quirky works of brilliant director Pedro Almodóvar, The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman follows an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid to close a… read more
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Sara Lissa Paulson
Author: Ana Cristina Herreros
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9781592703593
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long, long ago, ages before the Tooth Fairy, there lived in Spain a special kind of mouse--a Tooth Mouse--who collected children's lost baby teeth. Here you will discover the amazing and true story of one of them, Tooth Mouse… read more
Literary Genre: Children's stories, Folk tales, Picture books, Folklore, Fiction, Juvenile works, Contes, Livres d'images
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: El juego del ángel
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 531 pp.
ISBN: 9780385528702
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated into English by Lucia Graves.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans