On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Translator(s): Miguel Ochoa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780595307630
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A mediocre man struggles in the land of the successful. A celebrity who falls in disgrace finally finds "escape" from his torments. The obsessive search of a man for his lost shadow. A couple of brothers hunt for an ancient… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Antonio José Ponte
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 0872864073
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Short stories
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.
City: Denver, CO
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9781432704933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Javier Amaya
Publisher: La Cigarra Editions
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 45 pp.
ISBN: 9780967922638
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Javier Amaya depicts the experience of the human being who struggles with social and economic differences and the ultimate consequences of these differences: war. Fierce, incomprehensible, and useless wars that are the result of… read more
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Black Coat Press
City: Encino, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 253 pp.
ISBN: 9781932983364
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 Mask of the monster / Matthew Baugh -- Cadavres exquis / Bill Cunningham -- When Lemmy met Jules / Terrance Dicks -- The vanishing devil / Win Scott Eckert… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Author: Andrés Neuman
Original work: Hablar solos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9780374167530
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Domestic fiction
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: Blanco nocturno
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 9781941920169
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, Target in the Night is an intense and tragic family history reminiscent of King Lear, in which the madness of the detective is integral to… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Publisher: Pantheon Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 0375421432
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traces the relationship of a Peruvian composer and a cultured Salvadoran from 1960s Paris to 1980s California.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alfredo Bryce Echenique ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.
Literary Genre: Epistolary fiction, Fiction, General info: other format available: online version:; bryce echenique, alfredo, 1939-; amigdalitis de tarzán english; tarzan's tonsillitis; 1st american ed; new york : pantheon, Books, ©2001
Title: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
City: London
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9781846686672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Title: Tattoo
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Tatuaje
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781612192086
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is hired to investigate the identity of a man pulled out of the sea with a tattoo that reads, "born to raise hell in hell."
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Lilit Thwaites
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: Lágrimas en la lluvia
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184388
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call… read more
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Sofía Segovia
Original work: Peregrinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 469 pp.
ISBN: 9781542027915
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction / historical / general, Fiction / sagas, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, War fiction, Mexica fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Jen Hofer, JD Pluecker
Author: Myriam Moscona
Original work: Tela de sevoya
Publisher: Les Figues Press
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 221 pp.
ISBN: 9781934254660
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Megan Maxwell
Original work: Pídeme lo que quieras
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 402 pp.
ISBN: 9781542048569
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Getting stuck in an elevator with a flirtatious and charismatic stranger leaves Jude Flores flustered enough--even before she realizes that he's Eric Zimmerman, the billionaire CEO... and her powerfully sexy new boss. Having… read more
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction, Romance fiction
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Yuri Herrera
Original work: Diez planetas
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781644452233
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Philosophical fiction, Science fiction, Nouvelles
Title: Ten tales
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 0838754368
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Ten Women
Translator(s): Beth Fowler
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Diez mujeres
Publisher: Amazoncrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9781477849453
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldnt be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Sarah Moses
Author: Agustina María Bazterrica
Original work: Cadáver exquisito
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 1982150920
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Dystopian fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Dystopias, Romans
Translator(s): José León Sánchez
Author: José León Sánchez
Publisher: Roca-Basa Productions Inc
City: Tampa, FL
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 401 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Terra nostra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 785 pp.
ISBN: 1564782875
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Translations, Romans