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): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Julio Llamazares
Original work: La lluvia amarilla
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 0151005982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Irene Vasco
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802856173
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images
Translator(s): Susana Bayó Belenguer
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780773474048
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This study examines the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalban, a Spanish creative writer and socio-political commentator, focusing on his Carvalho series of detective novels, which span some 25 years. Bayo Bellenguer (Spanish, Dublin… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Tim Compton
Author: Ignacio Solares
Original work: No hay tal lugar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 107 pp.
ISBN: 9781434371850
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780802137869
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Aquí no es Miami
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228053
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Novelas ejemplares
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 0486451526
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the stories of a gypsy romance, a dialogue between two dogs, and a day in the underworld of eighteenth-century Seville, written in the baroque language of Cervantes' era.
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novellas, Action and adventure fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Sharon Wood
Author: Marcelo Birmajer
Original work: Tres mosqueteros
Publisher: Toby Press
City: New Milford, CT
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781592641932
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after 20 years of absence to mourn his two friends--two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised 'the three musketeers'.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Original work: Tres tristes tigres
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 487 pp.
ISBN: 1564783790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Así empieza lo malo
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 443 pp.
ISBN: 9781101946084
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Daniel Balderston
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin
Author: Sylvia Iparraguirre
Original work: Tierra del fuego
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 1880684721
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Sea stories, Romans
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Francisco Coloane
Original work: Tierra del Fuego
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372631
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nine short stories set in the bleak and unforgiving landscape of Chile's southern islands explores the harsh reality of the baseness of human nature.
Title: Tinisima
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Elena Poniatowska
Original work: Tinísima
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9780826341235
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Elena Poniatowska devoted ten years of research to understand the woman who was so caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II… read more
Translator(s): Samuel Nyal Henrie
Author: José Antonio Bravo
Original work: A la hora del tiempo
Publisher: Hats Off Books
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1587360004
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel portrays a love triangle, as the two Peruvians protagonists--Melisa, a young artist, and Miguel, a middle-aged writer--jaunt about Europe in search of themselves and their roots, finding the joy of love and the anxiety… read more
Translator(s): Guillermo Bleichmar
Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 419 pp.
ISBN: 9780374190255
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan and beyond-from South Ferry to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx-taking note of all the literary and historical ghosts haunting him, and the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): John King
Author: Ray Loriga
Original work: Tokio ya no nos quiere
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 0802141471
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Set in the very near future, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Tomás Nevinson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 640 pp.
ISBN: 9780593534588
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence. Thou shalt not kill. But, as our narrator admits, "Killing is not so extreme or so difficult… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spy fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Title: Tomb Song
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Julián Herbert
Original work: Canción de tumba
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9781555977993
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood… read more
Literary Genre: Bildungsromans, Fiction, Translations
Title: Tomochic
Author: Heriberto Frías
Original work: Tomóchic
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 208 pp.
ISBN: 0195117433
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the fictional narration of a military campaign ordered by the dictator Porfirio Diaz in October 1892, which resulted in the massacre of the village of Tomochic. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the author, and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History