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): 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
Translator(s): Clary Loisel
Author: Miguel Barbachano Ponce
Publisher: University Press of the South
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 141 pp.
ISBN: 1889431982
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Gabriela Ybarra
Original work: El comensal
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 144 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492242
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events -- the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Gabriela Ybarra
Original work: El comensal
Publisher: Harvill Secker
City: London
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 140 pp.
ISBN: 9781910701980
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events -- the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El héroe discreto
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9781250081629
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
Literary Genre: Tragicomedy, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El héroe discreto
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 326 pp.
ISBN: 9780374146740
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters… read more
Literary Genre: Tragicomedy, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Laura Restrepo
Original work: Los divinos
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781542003735
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As… read more
Literary Genre: Social problem fiction, Fiction, Novels
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El divorcio
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 98 pp.
ISBN: 9780811230933
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Author: Pedro Espinosa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 61 pp.
ISBN: 9780819578044
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The legendary modernist poet William Carlos Williams described this seventeenth-century book as "far more 'modern' than ever Hemingway or even Gertie ever thought of being" and "hot as hell besides." Williams translated this… read more
Author: Linda Berrón
Original work: El expediente
Publisher: Chiringa Press
City: Seguin, TX
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9781610120388
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) An enigmatic and audacious novel with ironic and sarcastic language in which gender power struggles, relations between couples, the seduction of erotic love, and repressed desire are highlighted. Andrés is a forty-year-old… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Linda Berrón ; translation by Mayela Vallejos Ramírez and Edward Waters Hood.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Handbooks, Handbooks and manuals, Novels
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El sueño del retorno
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223430
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Black humor, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: El sueño del retorno
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223430
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador.… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Novels, Thrillers (fiction), Black humor, Fiction, Humorous fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El sueño del celta
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780374143466
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native… read more
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El sueño del celta
Publisher: FSG
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9780374533694
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In 1916 the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the itish government for by treason. Casement had dedicated HIS extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed Peoples around the world - especially the native… read more
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El sueño del celta
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9781250033321
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world. But when he dared to draw a parallel… read more
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: La parte soñada
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 545 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830058
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Following his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called 'God particle', The Writer from The Invented Part can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Psychological fiction
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 1400062470
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the near future, at a meeting of the United States Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Epistolary fiction
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 393 pp.
ISBN: 9781542004800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's 1863. Napoleon III has installed a foreign monarch in Mexico to squash the current regime. Maximilian von Habsburg of Austria accepts the emperor's crown. But it is his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Princess Charlotte,… read more
Translator(s): Elwin Wirkala
Author: Rita Wirkala
Original work: El encuentro
Publisher: All Bilingual Press
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 292 pp.
ISBN: 9780989257985
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Encounter weaves a story of adventure, romance, immigration and the social realities of Latin America, beginning with the infamous dumping of toxic waste into the pristine Amazonian jungles of Ecuador by the Texaco oil… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Marcos Giralt Torrente
Original work: Final del amor
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781938073564
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Four short stories explore the mysteries of love and how distance between lovers develops.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Marcos Giralt Torrente ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans