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: My Two Worlds
Translator(s): Margaret Carson
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Mis dos mundos
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824283
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Sergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Nada
Translator(s): Glafyra Ennis
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Peter Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9780820420646
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Nada has been acclaimed as one of the best accounts of life in post-civil war Spain. It is a work that reflects the psychological and sociological effects of war on a society, particularly on its youth. It also… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History

Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Modern Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780679643456
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Barcelona, in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Andrea, a young university student, moves into a strange, gothic house inhabited by a volatile array of aunts and uncles in order to attend college.Introduction by Mario Vargas… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History

Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Modern Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780812975833
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History

Title: Nada
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carmen Laforet
Original work: Nada
Publisher: Vintage
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780099494195
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Andrea, an impoverished 18-year-old girl, travels to Barcelona to study literature at the university. The city imposes its post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. As the story develops, the tension between her… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, History

Title: Naked Men
Translator(s): Andrea Rosenberg
Author: Alicia Giménez Bartlett
Original work: Hombres desnudos
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 399 pp.
ISBN: 9781609454760
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Irene's husband has left her for a younger woman and her family business is on the verge of collapse, but the last thing she wants is to be the subject of gossip or pity. So she starts spending time with Genoveva, a divorcée who… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fiction

Title: Name of the Dog
Translator(s): Mark Fried
Author: Élmer Mendoza
Original work: Nombre de perro
Publisher: MacLehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 9780857052636
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta can't believe his luck. An old flame has returned to Mexico with a son he knew nothing about - it seems that a happy family life is finally beckoning for our careworn hero. The only snag is that Jason… read more

Title: Nancy
Translator(s): Ellen Jones
Author: Bruno Lloret
Original work: Nancy
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 9781949641127
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Alone but for her memories, Nancy has returned to Chile to wait for her cancer to take her away. Before her illness, before her husband's ridiculous death, before she fled home hidden in the back of a truck, she spent her youth… read more

Title: Nation of the Beasts: The Lord of the Sabbath
Translator(s): M. L. Anderson
Author: Mariana Palova
Original work: La nación de las bestias : El señor del Sabbath
Publisher: The Mage's Lantern
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9780999280980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Terrifying creatures, unseen to all around him, have tormented Elisse since he was a little boy. These “nightmares” and the cruel life as a young Westerner in a refugee camp have left him isolated and alone. The only clue to his… read more

Title: Natives
Translator(s): Michael Ugarte
Author: Inongo vi Makomè
Original work: Nativas
Publisher: Phoneme Media
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781939419453
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Having achieved professional success in Barcelona at the expense of family life, best friends Montse and Roser are dissatisfied and sexually frustrated. Over Catalan champagne and cognac, the two friends hatch a casual plan to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Natural Consequences
Translator(s): Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Andrea L. Bell
Author: Elia Barceló
Original work: Consecuencias naturales
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 9780826502339
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A feminist, gender swapping space farce from one of the world's masters of speculative fiction.

Title: Natural Histories
Translator(s): J. T. Lichtenstein
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: El matrimonio de los peces rojos
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9781609806057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a world where the ordinary is unsettling and the grotesque is exquisite, a parade of animals shows us what it means to be human. Examining the traits and fates of cats and snakes illuminates our own experience; from desire and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories -- genre, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Natural Histories
Translator(s): J. T. Lichtenstein
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: El matrimonio de los peces rojos
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9781609805517
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In her precise writing, subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. In each tale Nettel creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories -- genre, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Natural History
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Original work: Museo animal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9780374216306
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Historical fiction, Romans

Title: Navidad & Matanza
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Carlos Labbé
Original work: Navidad y matanza
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 92 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824924
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A genre-bending novel about two missing children, a fear-inducing drug called "hadon," and seven scientists collaborating on a novel-game.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Nazi Literature in the Americas
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Literatura Nazi en America
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Literary Genre: Satire, Chilean fiction, Satirical literature, Black humor, Fiction, Humour noir

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: Negras
Translator(s): Alejandro Álvarez Nieves
Author: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Original work: las Negras
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 338 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926420
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's writing blends research and fiction to summon voices silenced in archival records. The protagonists actively dissent from their condition as slaves and, more importantly, from their condition as negras--… read more

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