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: Affections
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
Translator(s): Jeffrey Gray
Author: Rosa Rodrigo Rey
Original work: Orilla Africana
Publisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1 pp.
ISBN: 9780300199093
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V.S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today's Guatemalan literary world… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated by Jeffrey Gray.
Literary Genre: Fiction
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
Translator(s): Asa Zatz
Author: Arturo Arias
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
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
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
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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
Translator(s): Nancy K. Muñoz
Author: Braulio Muñoz
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
Translator(s): Miranda France
Author: Alberto Manguel
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
Translator(s): Alice Whitmore
Author: Mariana Dimópulos
Original work: Cada despedida
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492150
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780810119543
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Title: All Souls
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Todas las almas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0811214532
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decollettage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Alice Kellen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
City: Naperville, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 435 pp.
ISBN: 9781728283760
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores Redondo
Original work: Todo esto te daré
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9781503902541
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock, but it won't be the last. He's now arrived in Galicia where Álvaro died. It's where… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Thrillers (fiction)
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Daniel Sada
Original work: Casi nunca
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 9781555976095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 749 pp.
ISBN: 9780813192321
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was likely written during the early fourteenth century, with the first known… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 748 pp.
ISBN: 9780813159928
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 685 pp.
ISBN: 9780813190341
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. A bestseller in its day, it inspired a number of sequels and imitators,… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Title: Amalia
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: José Mármol
Original work: Amalia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: Oxford
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 664 pp.
ISBN: 0195122763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo… read more
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Betina González
Original work: América alucinada
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781250621283
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the same time, a group of protesters decides to live… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans