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: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 313 pp.
ISBN: 0811214826
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms ..." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 0486434303
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Trafalgar
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Trafalgar
Publisher: Small Beer Press ; [Minneapolis, Minn.]
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 1183 pp.
ISBN: 9781618730336
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Angélica Gorodischer ; translated by Amalia Gladhart.
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Science fiction
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Osvaldo Fernández Gordián
Publisher: iUniverse
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 186 pp.
ISBN: 1450229077
Title: Tristana
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Tristana
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177655
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Peter Lownds
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Original work: Animal tropical
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 0786714999
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 0312205384
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780312270971
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: El delirio de Turing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780618541393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans, General info: other format available: online version:; paz soldán, edmundo, 1967-; delirio de turing english; turing's delirium; boston : houghton mifflin, 2006
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Tirana memoria
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219174
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, spanish, Black humor, Fiction, History, Black humor (literature), Historical fiction, Humour noir
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Rosario Sanmiguel
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 1558855149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Conrado Espinoza
Original work: El sol de Texas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854802
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Gabriela Wiener
Original work: Huaco retrato
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Usmaíl
Translator(s): Charlie Connelly
Author: Pedro Juan Soto
Original work: Usmaíl
Publisher: Sombrero Pub.
City: St. John, US Virgin Islands
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780964122086
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a… read more
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0252026551
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780252073557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín Caparrós
Original work: Valfierno
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297936
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who became one of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: María Ospina Pizano
Original work: Azares del cuerpo
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Title: Violeta
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Violeta
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780593496206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: Violeta
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 446 pp.
ISBN: 9780593558713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans