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: Almost Never
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

Title: Amadis of Gaul : A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th Century Presumably First Written in Spanish
Translator(s): Edwin B. Place, Herbert C. Behm
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)

Title: Amadis of Gaul. A novel of chivalry of the 14th century presumably first written in Spanish / Books III and IV
Translator(s): Edwin B. Place, Herbert C. Behm
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
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Romances (medieval narratives)

Title: Amadis of Gaul. Books I and II : A Novel of Chivalry of the 14th Century
Translator(s): Edwin B. Place, Herbert C. Behm
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

Title: American Delirium
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

Title: American Dreams
Translator(s): Heather Moore Cantarero
Author: Eduardo González Viaña
Original work: Los sueños de América
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

Title: American Visa
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

Title: Among Strange Victims
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Original work: En medio de extrañas víctimas
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

Title: Among the Hedges
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

Title: An Easy Thing
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

Title: An Easy Thing : A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Detective Novel
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Cosa fácil
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580066
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 Héctor Belascoarán Shayne… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: An Empty House
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Carlos Cerda
Original work: Una casa vacía
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780803215245
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An Empty House depicts the dissolution of an upper-middle-class family against a chilling background of exile, return, and discovery. The stark and moving narrative suggests the enormity of the horrors perpetrated in Chile… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 0811216306
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english, Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english, Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: An Impossible Balance
Translator(s): Gustavo Pellón
Author: Mempo Giardinelli
Original work: Imposible equilibrio
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781588711717
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: An Open Secret
Translator(s): Ian Barnett
Author: Carlos Gamerro
Original work: El secreto y las voces
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's An Open Secret is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.

Title: And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Gonzalo Celorio
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9780292719118
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Gonzalo Celorio ; translated by Dick Gerdes ; foreword by Ruben Gallo.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Andean Express
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan Recacoechea S.
Original work: Altiplano express
Publisher: Akashic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354729
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History