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): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 391 pp.
ISBN: 9781643584836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 307 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A powerful Mexican newspaper owner recalls episodes of his earlier life as he lies confined to his bed, gravely ill.
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0299198340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Short story genre
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis
Author: Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896771
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): David Kipen
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781933633046
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Ever since I could chase a bone, I've longed to talk ..." The first talking-dog story in Western literature--from the writer generally acknowledged, alongside William Shakespeare, as the founding father of modern literature, no… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: Diario de Andrés Fava
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0974968064
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Andrés Fava is a character from Cortázar's Final Exam, and his diary originally formed part of that novel, written in 1950 but not published, for political reasons, until after the author's death. At some stage Cortázar decided… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Miguel Barbachano Ponce
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 1889431982
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El héroe discreto
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780374146740
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters… read more
Literary Genre: Tragicomedy, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El divorcio
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El sueño del retorno
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223430
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Black humor, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El sueño del retorno
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223430
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador.… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Black humor, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El sueño del celta
Publisher: FSG
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780374533694
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In 1916 the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the itish government for by treason. Casement had dedicated HIS extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed Peoples around the world - especially the native… read more
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 1400062470
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the near future, at a meeting of the United States Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Epistolary fiction
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Marcos Giralt Torrente
Original work: Final del amor
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781938073564
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Four short stories explore the mysteries of love and how distance between lovers develops.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Marcos Giralt Torrente ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: David Toscana
Original work: El ejército iluminado
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781477317785
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico's northern neighbor steal a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9780826336163
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This collection brings together Perla Suez's first three novels written for adults. Translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, the novels take place in Entre Rios, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Original work: El ojo Dindymenio
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9781888451252
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The central character of The Eye of Cybele is Alcibiades, a stutteringly precocious Athenian general whose physical beauty, unparalleled Olympic achievements, and reckless courage on the battlefield earn the fanatical… read more
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Original work: El ojo Dindymenio
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 596 pp.
ISBN: 9781888451672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Eye of the Cybele, Akashic's second release by celebrated Uruguayan mystery novelist Daniel Chavarrma, is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in late sixth-… read more
Title: The Fallen
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Original work: Los caídos
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450253
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Political fiction, Dystopian fiction, Novellas, Fiction
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Camilo José Cela
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Funks Grove, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 1564783596
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans