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 Flight of the Condor : Stories of Violence and War from Colombia
Translator(s): Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9780299223601
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see a vibrant country amidst the death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his life, an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Flight of the Spirit
Translator(s): Lucy Medina Rivera
Author: Lucy Medina Rivera
Original work: Un espíritu en vuelo
Publisher: L.A. Medina Rivera
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 122 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It is a biographical novel about a mexican pioneer woman aviator, doing commercial flights from the State of Washington to Alaska in the late twenties. It describes the way of life of most of the twentieth century, since 1906;… read more

Title: The forbidden stories of Marta Veranda
Translator(s): Dick Cluster, Marina Harss, Mark Schafer, Alan West-Durán
Author: Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Original work: Las historias prohibidas de Marta Veneranda
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 158 pp.
ISBN: 158322047X
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The whispered confessions weave a tapestry of broken taboos and twisted expectations. The poignant and often hilarious tales expose the inner and outer terrain of relationships, sexuality, and the human condition." "In "Little… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Romans, Nouvelles, Short stories

Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Original work: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis
Publisher: Wildside Press
City: Doylestown, PA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 1587155249
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below
Translator(s): Frances Horning Barraclough
Author: José María Arguedas
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
City: Pittsburgh
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 0822941171
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José María Arguedas ; translated by Frances Horning Barraclough ; Julio Ortega, editor ; critical essays translated by Fred Fornoff.
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction

Title: The Garden of Secrets
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Las semanas del jardín
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9781852428099
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twenty-eight storytellers - one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet - meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, who was arrested in the early days of the Spanish civil war. The storytellers question the nature of… read more

Title: The Garden with Seven Gates
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Concha Castroviejo
Original work: El jardin de las siete puertas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 0838755593
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This collection of fourteen stories and one minidrama features children protagonists, talking birds, and extraordinary occurrences. Like the tales of Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm, they speak to fantasies and fears… read more
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Translations

Title: The Gaudí Key
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Esteban Martín, Andreu Carranza
Original work: La clave Gaudí
Publisher: Harper
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 367 pp.
ISBN: 9780061434921
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Their name was only spoken in hushed tones. They were cloaked in anonymity, a legend thought to belong to the distant past. In the early twentieth century, Barcelona basks as the center of the high-spirited Modernist movement… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Gaudí Key
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Esteban Martín, Andreu Carranza
Original work: La clave Gaudí
Publisher: William Morrow
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 367 pp.
ISBN: 9780061434914
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As noted Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí hides an extraordinary relic in his complex masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, he is pursued by the leader of a malevolent secret society that remains a threat a century later.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Esteban Martín and Andreu Carranza ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: The General in His Labyrinth
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El general en su laberinto
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781400043330
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans

Title: The General in His Labyrinth
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El general en su laberinto
Publisher: Everyman's Library
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 1400043336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans

Title: The General in His Labyrinth
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: El general en su laberinto
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 285 pp.
ISBN: 1400034701
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Romans

Title: The German Girl
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La niña alemana
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 343 pp.
ISBN: 9781501121142
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, American fiction (spanish)

Title: The German Girl
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La niña alemana
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, Maine
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 559 pp.
ISBN: 9781410493576
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, American fiction (spanish)

Title: The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
Translator(s): Douglas Weatherford
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: El gallo de oro
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, Texas
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The legendary title novella from one of Mexicos most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Rulfo ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction and additional materials, by Douglas J. Weatherford.
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Short stories, Novellas, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: The Goldsmith's Secret
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Original work: El secreto del orfebre
Publisher: Maclehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 9780857050052
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide.

Title: The Good Cripple
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Original work: El cojo bueno
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 116 pp.
ISBN: 0811215660
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is abducted in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The good suicides
Translator(s): Laura McGloughlin
Author: Toni Hill
Original work: Los buenos suicidas
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 338 pp.
ISBN: 9780770435905
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction

Title: The Green House
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La casa verde
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 405 pp.
ISBN: 0060732792
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Green House
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La casa verde
Publisher: Rayo
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 405 pp.
ISBN: 0060732792
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mario Vargas Llosa's novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans