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: 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: Stages of Desire: Scarred by the Wind and Dark Stone
Translator(s): Iride Lamartina-Lens, Gregary Joseph Racz
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays
City: Millstone Township, NJ
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9781888463354
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stages of Desire, volume 39 in the Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays series, includes two plays, Scarred by the Wind by Juan Carlos Rubio, translated from Spanish to English by Iride Lamartina-Lens; and Dark Stone by Alberto… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

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: Story of a Sociopath
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: Historia de un canalla
Publisher: Vintage Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 849 pp.
ISBN: 9781101973257
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A spellbinding and provocative psychological portrait that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power. Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer… 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

Title: Such Small Hands
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Andrés Barba
Original work: Las manos pequeñas
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, California
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492006
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Sudden Death
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Muerte súbita
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9781594633461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the… read more
Literary Genre: Tennis stories, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Sudden Death
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Alvaro Enrigue
Original work: Muerte súbita
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 261 pp.
ISBN: 9780735213449
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the… read more
Literary Genre: Tennis stories, Historical fiction, Fiction

Title: Sun Inventions ; Perfumes of Carthage : Two Novellas
Translator(s): Phyllis Silverstein, Johnny Payne
Author: Teresa Porzecanski
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 0826321801
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Teresa Porzecanski writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Teresa Porzecanski ; Sun inventions translated by Johnny Payne ; Perfumes of Carthage (Perfumes de Cartago) translated by Phyllis Silverstein ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Uruguayan fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: Super Extra Grande
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: José Miguel Sánchez Gómez
Original work: Superextragrande
Publisher: Restless Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 156 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060563
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction

Title: Sweet and Delectable
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Jacinto Octavio Picón
Original work: Dulce y sabrosa
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg/London
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 310 pp.
ISBN: 0838754562
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This translation makes available to the English-reading public another treatment of that most famous of Spanish literary creations: the Don Juan figure. This is a Don Juan in decline who will come to grips with his emptiness… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Jacinto Octavio Picón ; translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek ; introduction by Noël M. Valis.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Sweet Scent of Death
Translator(s): John Page
Author: Guillermo Arriaga Jordán
Original work: Un dulce olor a muerte
Publisher: Washington Square Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780743296793
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramó n Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Mystery fiction

Title: Swift As Desire
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Anchor Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 038572151
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Esquivel ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Swift As Desire
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Crown Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780385721516
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Swift As Desire : Large Print Edition
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 317 pp.
ISBN: 9780375431425
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel based on the life of the author's father follows the fortunes of don Jubilo, a telegraph operator, as his life parallels the birth, rise, and eventual fall of the telegraph.
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction