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: Mortal Flesh : The Last Hero of Pompeii
Translator(s): Ana Costa Alongi
Author: Ana Costa Alongi
Original work: Cuerpo mortal : el último héroe de Pompeya
Publisher: Sigillum Publishers
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780983848561
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for… read more

Title: Mortal Flesh : The Last Hero of Pompeii
Translator(s): Ana Costa Alongi
Author: Ana Costa Alongi
Original work: Cuerpo mortal : el último héroe de Pompeya
Publisher: Sigillum Publishers
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 0983848564
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for… read more

Title: Mother Nature
Translator(s): Walter Borenstein
Author: Emilia Pardo Bazán
Original work: La Madre Naturaleza
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9780838757970
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mother Nature is certainly Emilia Pardo Bazan's greatest contribution to the Realistic/ Naturalistic Spanish novel of her time, and represents her literary powers at the very height of her career as a writer. It has been said… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Love stories, Romans

Title: Mothers
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Brenda Lozano
Original work: Soñar como sueñan los árboles
Publisher: Catapult
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 192 pp.
ISBN: 9781646222537
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When the kidnapping of a little girl shocks the Mexican capital, the lives of two very different women become forever intertwined. Gloria Felipe lives a comfortable upper-class life with her husband and five children. Nuria… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Novels

Title: Mothers and Dogs : Stories
Translator(s): Curtis Bauer
Author: Fabio Morábito
Original work: Madres y perros
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 9781635420821
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mining everyday life in Mexico and abroad for psychological insight, these subtle, unsettling stories reveal new ways of looking at our world. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: Mourning
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Original work: Duelo
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781942658443
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland… read more
Literary Genre: Jewish fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Guatemalan fiction

Title: Mourning for Papá : A Story of a Syrian-Jewish Family in Mexico
Translator(s): Kay S. Garcia
Author: Jacobo Sefami
Original work: Los dolientes
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 239 pp.
ISBN: 9781888205312
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using the death of the father as a point of departure, the novel is divided into ten chapters, a structure that is particularly effective because the chapters correspond to the ten days that begin on the Jewish New Year and end… read more

Title: Mouthful of Birds
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
City: London
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9781786076694
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they are caught in the headlights of a passing car. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Unearthly and unexpected, these… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mouthful of Birds : Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184628
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A first English-language collection of stories by the Man Booker International Prize-finalist author of Fever Dream incorporates themes of high suspense, psychological tension, unearthly restlessness and distortions in reality.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mouthful of Birds: Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 9780399184635
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Mr. President
Author: Miguel Angel Asturias
Original work: El señor presidente
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780143136385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century,… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Political fiction

Title: Mr. Witt Among the Rebels
Translator(s): Peter Chalmers Mitchell
Publisher: Kessinger Pub.
City: Whitefish, MT
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 367 pp.
ISBN: 9781432566944
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Satirical literature

Title: Mrs. Murakami's Garden = Oto No-Murakami Monogatari
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: El jardín de la señora Murakami : oto no-Murakami monogatari
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781646050291
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu's teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she publishes a firm rebuttal to his curation. Instead of… read more
Literary Genre: Allegories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: Multiple Choice
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Facsímil
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9780143109198
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Named one of the best books of the summer by the Wall Street Journal, Elle, the Huffington Post and Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Fiction, Experimental fiction

Title: Mundo Cruel : Stories
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 91 pp.
ISBN: 9781609804183
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nine short stories that reveal the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The stories explore the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Murder in the Central Committee
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Asesinato en el comité central
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 203 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Why me?" asks Pepe Carvalho. "Because you're an ex-communist. Because you know who we are, what we're like, where we come from, and where we're going." At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room… read more

Title: Music for Bamboo Strings
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Carlos Pintado
Original work: Música para cuerdas de bambú = Music for bamboo strings
Publisher: Sundial House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9798987926451
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Intimate conversations, soliloquies, patches of burned diaries, existential definitions of beauty, pain, or personal discovery come together in Music for Bamboo Strings. A subtle tapestry of music imbues the story and… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry

Title: My Clavicle : And Other Massive Misalignments
Translator(s): Katie King
Author: Marta Sanz
Original work: Clavícula (Mi clavícula y otros inmensos desajustes)
Publisher: The Unnamed Press
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2025
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 175 pp.
ISBN: 9781961884502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On an international flight to a conference, the author Marta Sanz notices a tiny bump beneath her skin, just below her clavicle, near her breast bone. So begins an inquiry that is at turns satirical detective story, philosophical… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Psychological fiction, Novels

Title: My Documents
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Mis documentos
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781940450520
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations

Title: My Documents: Stories
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Mis documentos
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9780143136521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language" (NPR)-now reissued by Penguin… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations