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: Necropolis
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Santiago Gamboa
Original work: Necrópolis
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 466 pp.
ISBN: 9781609450731
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An author attends a conference featuring a series of extraordinary life stories, where the story of formerly troubled evangelical pastor José Maturana captures his imagination and causes him to seek answers when Maturana is later… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish literature -- translations into english, Fictional work, Thrillers (fiction), Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Nefando
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Nefando
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Novels, Science fiction, Romans

Title: Nervous System
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Lina Meruane
Original work: Sistema nervioso
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 225 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450550
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the country of the present but she is from the country of the past, a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Romans

Title: Nest in the Bones : Stories
Translator(s): Martina Broner
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 9780914671725
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Never Any End to Paris
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: París no se acaba nunca
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218139
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells… read more

Title: Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down
Translator(s): Marc Thomas Brudzinski
Author: Iván Monalisa Ojeda
Original work: La misma nota, forever
Publisher: Sangría
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9789568681449
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down, the first collection of short stories by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, gathers the voices of transsexuals, transvestites, locas and two-spirits who roam through the nights and streets of Manhattan -its… read more

Title: New Cuban Fiction
Translator(s): John O'Brien, E. J. Van Lanen, Mary G. Berg
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9781564784643
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.Contents:             … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: New Islands and Other Stories
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780374528249
Summary/Reviews: () With a preface by Jorge Luis Borges
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: New Short Fiction from Cuba
Translator(s): Jacqueline Loss, Esther Katheryn Whitfield
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780810124066
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: News from the Empire
Translator(s): Stella T Clark
Author: Fernando del Paso
Original work: Noticias del Imperio
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign [Ill.]
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 704 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: News from the Empire
Author: Fernando del Paso
Original work: Noticias del Imperio
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 704 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: Nietzsche on His Balcony
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Federico en su balcón
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 332 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971583
Summary/Reviews: (Page 4 of cover) On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Night Prayers
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Santiago Gamboa
Original work: Plegarias nocturnas
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 313 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok, accused of drug trafficking. He risks the death penalty and longs for his distant sister Juana. During their childhood, Juana promised to do everything to protect him from… read more

Title: Night Watch
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: Reinaldo Bragado Bretaña
Original work: La noche vigilada
Publisher: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe
City: Tempe, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 1931010161
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Alberto has endured political imprisonment for writings unacceptable to the Castro regime in Cuba. His nocturnal wanderings in Havana lead him from a colonial cafe, where he begins an intense romance with a young woman, to an… read more

Title: Nights in Heaven
Translator(s): María Teresa Guzmán
Author: María Teresa Guzmán
Original work: Noches en La Gloria
Publisher: American Literary Press
City: Baltimore, MD
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9781561677757
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A truly unforgettable story, "Nights in Heaven" is a splendidly crafted tale filled with suspense, adventure, and the rich beauty of the Mexican wilderness. This thoroughly absorbing novel set in 20th Century Mexico is a blend… read more

Title: Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird : Stories
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María Bazterrica
Original work: Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 154 pp.
ISBN: 9781668012666
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans

Title: No Happy Ending
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: No habrá final feliz
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580387
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.

Title: No Happy Ending : A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Detective Novel
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: No habrá final feliz
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 1590580389
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.

Title: No Man's Land : Selected Stories
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: City Lights
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864290
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stories from northern Mexico, the apocalyptic urban zones and desert landscapes just south of the border.Contents:                 Real life ; The darkest night ; Just don't take the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: No One Said A Word
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Paula Varsavsky
Original work: Nadie alzaba la voz
Publisher: Wings Press
City: San Antonio, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781609402693
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It is the late 1970s and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its “Dirty Wars,” as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in Buenos… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans