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: A Week in October
Translator(s): Marina Harss
Author: Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Original work: Una semana de octubre
Publisher: Other Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 9781590512883
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Love stories

Title: A Whistler in the Nightworld : Short Fiction from the Latin Americas
Translator(s): Thomas Colchie
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 410 pp.
ISBN: 9780452283589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.Contents:                 Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: A Working Woman
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Elvira Navarro
Original work: La trabajadora
Publisher: Two Lines Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 191 pp.
ISBN: 9781931883658
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction

Title: A World for Julius
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Original work: Un mundo para Julius
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0299196747
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his… read more

Title: Abyss
Translator(s): Lisa Dillman
Author: Pilar Quintana
Original work: Los abismos
Publisher: World Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781642861228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction, Novels, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: Adam in Eden
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Adán en Edén
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with… read more
Literary Genre: Legal fiction, Legal fiction (literature), Fiction, Humorous fiction, Romans judiciaires

Title: Adam's Secret
Translator(s): Diane Stockwell
Author: Guillermo Ferrara
Original work: El secreto de Adán
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 346 pp.
ISBN: 9781612185613
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A passionate novel that unite the activation of DNA, the mystery of sexual alchemy, the Atlantis, Earth's ascent as forecasted by the 2010 Mayan prophesy, cover-up conspiracies between the secret government and the Catholic… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Adios Hemingway
Translator(s): John King
Author: Leonardo Padura
Original work: Adiós, Hemingway
Publisher: Canongate
City: London
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781841955414
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the… read more

Title: Adios Muchachos
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 1888451165
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Romans

Title: Ado's Plot of Land
Translator(s): Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Author: Gustavo Gac-Artigas
Original work: El solar de Ado
Publisher: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio
City: Fair Haven, NJ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 202 pp.
ISBN: 1930879326

Title: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Translator(s): Charles Jarvis
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: General Books
City: Memphis, TN
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 9781459027978
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction

Title: Affections
Translator(s): Sophie Elizabeth Hughes
Author: Rodrigo Hasbún
Original work: Los afectos
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 9781501154799
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Political fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Afro-Puerto Ricans in the Short Story : An Anthology
Translator(s): Victor C. Simpson
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: P. Lang
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780820478753
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: After the Bombs
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: Arturo Arias
Original work: Después de las bombas
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 177 pp.
ISBN: 9780915306893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book… read more

Title: After the Winter
Translator(s): Rosalind Harvey
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Original work: Después del invierno
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 242 pp.
ISBN: 9781566895255
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Romans

Title: After-Dinner Conversation : The Diary of a Decadent
Translator(s): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: José Asunción Silva
Original work: De sobremesa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780292709799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jose Asuncion Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siecle novels and… read more

Title: Afternoon of the Dinosaur
Translator(s): Robert S. Rudder, Gloria Chacón de Arjona
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Original work: La tarde del dinosaurio
Publisher: Svenson Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780615955636
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: Albina and the Dog-men : A Fantastical Novel
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Original work: Albina y los hombres-perro
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060693
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction

Title: Alejandro and the Fishermen of Tancay
Translator(s): Nancy K. Muñoz
Author: Braulio Muñoz
Original work: Alejandro y los pescadores de Tancay
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780816526796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a series of tales fashioned as an old fisherman's reflections, Peruvian-American author and sociologist Muñoz ("The Peruvian Notebooks") offers an elegiac lament for a disappearing way of life along Peru's Pacific coast.
Literary Genre: Sea stories, Fiction, General info: awards: international latino book award, 2009 - best novel - historical fiction - english other format available: online version:; muñoz, braulio,, 1946-; alejandro y los pescadores de tancay english; alejandro and the fishermen of tancay; tucson : university of arizona press, ©2008

Title: All Men Are Liars
Translator(s): Miranda France
Author: Alberto Manguel
Original work: Todos los hombres son mentirosos
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans