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: Solitaire of Love
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: Solitario de amor
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 111 pp.
ISBN: 0822325039
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Cristina Peri Rossi ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Literary Genre: Erotic fiction, Fiction

Title: Some Clouds
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 138 pp.
ISBN: 159058032X
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Some Clouds
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580325
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Son of the Murdered Maid
Original work: Hijo de opa!
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9780773472112

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 240 pp.
ISBN: 9780593190135
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Songs for the Flames : Stories
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Original work: Canciones para el incendio
Publisher: Maclehose Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781529405446
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Southeaster
Translator(s): Jon Lindsay Miles
Author: Haroldo Conti
Original work: Sudeste
Publisher: And Other Stories
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781908276605
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Southern Seas
Translator(s): Patrick Camiller
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Los mares del Sur
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9781612191171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific… read more
Literary Genre: Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Space Invaders
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona Fernández
Original work: Space invaders
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 70 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450079
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids… read more
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Chilean fiction -- translations into english, Novellas, Translations, Social problem fiction, Political fiction, Bildungsromans, Fiction, History, Historical fiction

Title: Spaces in Between
Translator(s): Rose Mary Salum, Debra D. Andrist
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Literal Pub Inc.
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9780977028719
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spaces in Between is a collection of short stories. Social commentary is expressed not through a direct invasive dialogue, but rather by evocative introspections of prose directly linked to the political and economical status… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush, Lisa Dillman
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513122
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories, many of which appear in English for the first time, transport the reader through Spain's… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century = Cuentos Españoles de Fines del Siglo XIX
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish stories of the late nineteenth century = Cuentos españoles de fines del siglo XIX
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 217 pp.
ISBN: 9780486445052
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero," by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend… read more

Title: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos Españoles del Romanticismo : Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era = Cuentos españoles del romanticismo: Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 223 pp.
ISBN: 9780486447155
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These 12 classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic Era, they remain popular with readers of every… read more

Title: Spanish-American Short Stories = Cuentos Hispanoamericanos
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780486441238
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collects seventeen short stories written by prominent Latin American authors from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with their English translations on facing pages.Contents:       … read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Spiritual Choreographies
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Carlos Labbé
Original work: Coreografías espirituales
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781940953977
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man--the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band--composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Mario Benedetti
Original work: Primavera con una esquina rota
Publisher: Penguin Classics
City: London
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 304 pp.
ISBN: 9780241302620
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Mario Benedetti
Original work: Primavera con una esquina rota
Publisher: The New Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9781620974902
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

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