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): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 157 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060228
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The English-language debut of "one of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literature (Revista Gatopardo): a collection of ironic and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico.… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Emilio Calderón
Original work: El mapa del creador
Publisher: Penguin Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9781594201813
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
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
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
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
Author: José Antonio Cotrina
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
City: Milwaukie, OR
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 274 pp.
ISBN: 9781506716800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twelve teenagers from around the world fall under the spell of a demigod and journey to a mystical realm of devastation and cruelty where they must survive until the Red Moon returns. Despite the perils, these kids do not intend… read more
Literary Genre: Young adult fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Paranormal fiction
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
Publisher: Cluny Media
City: Providence, RI
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 444 pp.
ISBN: 9781952826405
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Cypresses Believe in God is an epic novel about the anticipatory years of the Spanish Civil War. Set in the provincial capital of Gerona and spanning the years 1931 to 1936, the novel painstakingly plots the public and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History
Translator(s): Harriet De Onís
Author: José María Gironella
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
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
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
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
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Original work: La hija olvidada
Publisher: Washington Square Press/Atria
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 303 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187940
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
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
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
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Berta de Llano
Publisher: Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
City: Vero Beach, FL
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 32 pp.
ISBN: 9781731641717
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A poor old man happens upon some thieves' gold. Can his clever wife fool her husband, and the thieves, and make all their dreams come true?
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
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
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.
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Horacio Quiroga
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
Translator(s): Camilo A. Ramirez
Author: Jorge Barón Biza
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