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): Alice Whitmore
Author: Mariana Dimópulos
Original work: Cada despedida
Publisher: Transit Books
City: Oakland, CA
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781945492150
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Romans
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
City: Evanston, IL
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9780810119543
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction, Fiction, Translations, Romans
Title: All Souls
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Todas las almas
Publisher: Vintage International
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780307950772
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set at Oxford University, the young tutor Clare Bayes attracted the eyes of a visiting Spanish lecturer, and the two begin an affair, unbeknownst to Clare's husband, but they carelessly leave behind evidence of the adultery.With… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: All Souls
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Todas las almas
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 0811214532
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decollettage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Adrian Nathan West
Author: Alice Kellen
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
City: Naperville, IL
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 435 pp.
ISBN: 9781728283760
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Michael Meigs
Author: Dolores Redondo
Original work: Todo esto te daré
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 478 pp.
ISBN: 9781503902541
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock, but it won't be the last. He's now arrived in Galicia where Álvaro died. It's where… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Thrillers (fiction)
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Daniel Sada
Original work: Casi nunca
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 330 pp.
ISBN: 9781555976095
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 749 pp.
ISBN: 9780813192321
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was likely written during the early fourteenth century, with the first known… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 748 pp.
ISBN: 9780813159928
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Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Original work: Amadís de Gaula
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
City: Lexington, KY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 685 pp.
ISBN: 9780813190341
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. A bestseller in its day, it inspired a number of sequels and imitators,… read more
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)
Title: Amalia
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: José Mármol
Original work: Amalia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: Oxford
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 664 pp.
ISBN: 0195122763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo… read more
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Betina González
Original work: América alucinada
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781250621283
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the same time, a group of protesters decides to live… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans
Author: Eduardo González Viaña
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 1558854479
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) No one knows how Porfirio entered the United States. Some say he traveled on the winds of a sandstorm, others say he walked over the hills, and still others say he flew. In the first story of this collection, Porfiro, the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan de Recacoechea
Original work: American visa
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354200
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to… read more
Literary Genre: Marriage -- fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cara de pan
Publisher: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles
Title: Amulet
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Amuleto
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Title: Amulet
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Amuleto
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216647
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tour de force, "Amulet" is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Barbara Riess
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0982786034
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This bilingual collection highlights Llana's most critically successful stories. The female protagonists and the convergence of narrative times within a limited space - an address in Havana - present a compelling portrait of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Cosa fácil
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 1590580060
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Mystery fiction