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: The Confidantes
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Original work: Las confidentes
Publisher: Gaon Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780982065723
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fiction

Title: The Creator's Map
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9781594201813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Creator's Map
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780143115502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Creator's Map (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 429 pp.
ISBN: 9781410411716
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Jose Maria, an architect, is forced to wait out the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at the Spanish Academy in Rome, he learns of an underground Nazi plot to acquire a legendary map that is said to be penned by God depicting the… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Crossed-out Notebook
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Nicolás Giacobone
Original work: El cuaderno tachado
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781501198748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: The Cypresses Believe in God
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
Original work: Los cipreses creen en Dios
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 806 pp.
ISBN: 9781586170462
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Dancer and the Thief
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Baile de la victoria
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9780393064940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during a heist that is complicated by the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta : translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780732273835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 006008894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated by Stephen A. Lytle.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Daughter's Tale
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Daughter's Tale (Large Print Edition)
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

Title: The Death of Artemio Cruz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La muerte de Artemio Cruz
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.

Title: The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Original work: La gallina degollada y otros cuentos
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

Title: The Devil of the Provinces
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis
Author: Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Original work: El diablo de las provincias
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

Title: The Dialogue of the Dogs
Translator(s): David Kipen
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El coloquio de los perros
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

Title: The Diary of Andres Fava
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

Title: The Diary of José Toledo : A Translation and Critical Edition
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Miguel Barbachano Ponce
Original work: El diario de José Toledo
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

Title: The Discreet Hero
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

Title: The Divorce
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

Title: The Dream of my Return
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