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

Author: Luz E. Macías
Publisher: La Casa del Hada Editores
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 7 pp.
ISBN: 9789583315183
Translator(s): José Z. Tallet
Author: José Z. Tallet
Original work: La semilla estéril
Publisher: Cefatex International
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 371 pp.
ISBN: 9780965623285
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 0743217187
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Picaresque fiction, Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans picaresques
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Marina Perezagua
Original work: Yoro
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894104
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Valeria Luiselli
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 195 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894098
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Romans, Fictional work
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0312420285
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Literary Genre: Spanish literature, Translations
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Luis Zapata
Original work: La más fuerte pasión
Publisher: Floricanto Press
City: Mountain View, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780915745760
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Zilia L. Laje
Author: Zilia L. Laje
Original work: La cortina de bagazo
Publisher: Guarina
City: Miami, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 536 pp.
ISBN: 9780964622418
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9780399153839
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780452289741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/
Author: Claudio Orrego Vicuña
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
City: Scranton, PA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 82 pp.
ISBN: 9781589662186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Original work: El mal de la taiga
Publisher: Dorothy, a Publishing project
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 9780997366679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down-- that she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: El cantor de tango
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1582346011
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: El maestro
Publisher: Harper Muse
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780785252177
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: El maestro
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 413 pp.
ISBN: 9781638084860
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Paul Antill
Author: Juan Manuel de Prada
Original work: La tempestad
Publisher: Overlook Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9781585673872
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objects d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Paul Antill
Author: Juan Manuel de Prada
Original work: La tempestad
Publisher: Overlook Press
City: Woodstock, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 1585673870
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting, "The Tempest," Spanish art historian Alejandro Ballesteros witnesses a murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's academic world and a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Mempo Giardinelli
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 1891270109
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realize they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Mempo Giardinelli ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Tercer Reich
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780374275624
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction