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: Son of the Murdered Maid
Original work: Hijo de opa!
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780773472112

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780593190135
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Maclehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781529405446
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Southeaster
Translator(s): Jon Lindsay Miles
Author: Haroldo Conti
Original work: Sudeste
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276605
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Southern Seas
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Los mares del Sur
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Space Invaders
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona Fernández
Original work: Space invaders
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 70 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Chilean fiction -- translations into english, Novellas, Translations, Social problem fiction, Political fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, History, Historical fiction

Title: Spaces in Between
Translator(s): Rose Mary Salum, Debra D. Andrist
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Literal Pub Inc.
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9780977028719
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spaces in Between is a collection of short stories. Social commentary is expressed not through a direct invasive dialogue, but rather by evocative introspections of prose directly linked to the political and economical status… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Lisa Dillman
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories, many of which appear in English for the first time, transport the reader through Spain's… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century = Cuentos Españoles de Fines del Siglo XIX
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish stories of the late nineteenth century = Cuentos españoles de fines del siglo XIX
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9780486445052
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero," by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend… read more

Title: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos Españoles del Romanticismo : Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos españoles del romanticismo: Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780486447155
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These 12 classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic Era, they remain popular with readers of every… read more

Title: Spanish-American Short Stories = Cuentos Hispanoamericanos
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780486441238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collects seventeen short stories written by prominent Latin American authors from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with their English translations on facing pages.Contents:       … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Mario Benedetti
Original work: Primavera con una esquina rota
Publisher: The New Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781620974902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Sr. Futuro y José = Mr. Futuro and José
Translator(s): Moses Mercedes
Author: Moses Mercedes
Original work: Sr. Futuro y José = Mr. Futuro and José
Publisher: 1stBooks
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 97 pp.
ISBN: 9780759632295
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A story extracted from the inmost of our Hispanic reality and from the bitter experiences that could have been lived in any country of America and terminated in any northern city.

Title: State of Siege
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: El sitio de los sitios
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864061
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These… read more

Title: Still Born
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: La hija única
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781639730032
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Romans

Title: Stories of Enchantment From Nineteenth-Century Spain
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9780838755334
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories of Enchantment consists of seventeen stories by nine of nineteenth-century Spain's most well-known authors, and demonstrates convincingly that, although it had no Charles Perrault and no brothers Grimm, it maintained a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Stories of Life and Death
Translator(s): Antonio T. De Nicolás
Author: Juan Ramón Jiménez
Original work: Historias y cuentos
Publisher: ToExcel
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 0595002692
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Over one hundred vignettes in Stories of Life and Death create haunting images of the author's favorite subjects: women in love, children coping with tragedy, eccentrics, the emotions of compassion, bitterness, envy and longing… read more

Title: Stories of Little Women & Grown-Up Girls
Translator(s): Emily Maguire
Author: Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Original work: Historias de mujeres grandes y chiquitas
Publisher: Editorial Campana
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780972561167
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Love, death, betrayal, and sex intertwine and whirl with New York City and Havana beating in the background. In unpredictable tales woven with psychological and political significance, the protagonists struggle to transform… read more

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