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: The Creator's Map
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780143115502
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Creator's Map (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 429 pp.
ISBN: 9781410411716
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Jose Maria, an architect, is forced to wait out the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at the Spanish Academy in Rome, he learns of an underground Nazi plot to acquire a legendary map that is said to be penned by God depicting the… read more
Literary Genre: Love stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: The Crossed-out Notebook
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Nicolás Giacobone
Original work: El cuaderno tachado
Publisher: Scribner
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9781501198748
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction

Title: The Cypresses Believe in God
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
Original work: Los cipreses creen en Dios
Publisher: Ignatius Press
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 806 pp.
ISBN: 9781586170462
Literary Genre: Fiction, History

Title: The Dancer and the Thief
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Baile de la victoria
Publisher: W.W. Norton
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 300 pp.
ISBN: 9780393064940
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during a heist that is complicated by the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta : translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Dark
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Boca de lobo
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824436
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The narrator remembers a young factory worker, named Delia. Delia is beautiful, but also very poor, and the narrator mentions her "proletarian nature" compared to the narrator's well-educated, middle-class background. He seems… read more

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: Ecco
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780732273835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Dark Bride
Translator(s): Stephen A. Lytle
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: La novia oscura
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 006008894
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated by Stephen A. Lytle.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Love stories, Fiction

Title: The Daughter's Tale
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Daughter's Tale (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 391 pp.
ISBN: 9781643584836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.
Literary Genre: Domestic ficiton, Fictional work, Domestic fiction, Novels, Fiction, Historical fiction, American fiction (spanish), Romans

Title: The Days of the Deer
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Liliana Bodoc
Original work: Los días del venado
Publisher: Corvus
City: London
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9781848870277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross the Yentru Sea. All our predictions and sacred books clearly say the same thing. The rest is all shadows. Shadows that prevent us from… read more

Title: The Death of Artemio Cruz
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 307 pp.
ISBN: 9780374531805
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A powerful Mexican newspaper owner recalls episodes of his earlier life as he lies confined to his bed, gravely ill.

Title: The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
Original work: La gallina degollada y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
City: Madison, WI
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0299198340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other… read more
Literary Genre: Translations, Short story genre

Title: The Desert and Its Seed
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Jorge Barón Biza
Original work: El desierto y su semilla
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9780811225809
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia's face, but… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels

Title: The Devil of the Provinces
Translator(s): Lizzie Davis
Author: Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Original work: El diablo de las provincias
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896771
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: The Devil's Country
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Perla Suez
Original work: El país del diablo
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 150 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680335
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, fourteen year-old girl Lum Hué, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother and sole survivor of the massacre of her village in 1879 by white troops… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Devil's Nose
Translator(s): Ingrid Watson Miller, Margaret Lindsay Morris
Author: Luz Argentina Chiriboga
Original work: La nariz del diablo
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781634176903
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the nineteenth century, thousands of Jamaicans journeyed to Ecuador to fulfill their dreams for their future. But, to secure this dream, they had to accomplish their goal, which was to build President Eloy Alfaro's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Dialogue of the Dogs
Translator(s): David Kipen
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: El coloquio de los perros
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781933633046
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Ever since I could chase a bone, I've longed to talk ..." The first talking-dog story in Western literature--from the writer generally acknowledged, alongside William Shakespeare, as the founding father of modern literature, no… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Diaries of Emilio Renzi : The Happy Years
Translator(s): Robert Croll
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Original work: Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Los años felices
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 499 pp.
ISBN: 9781632061980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975--running a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Diary fiction, Fiction

Title: The Diary of Andres Fava
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Julio Cortázar
Original work: Diario de Andrés Fava
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0974968064
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Andrés Fava is a character from Cortázar's Final Exam, and his diary originally formed part of that novel, written in 1950 but not published, for political reasons, until after the author's death. At some stage Cortázar decided… read more
Literary Genre: Diary fiction, Journaux intimes fictifs