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: 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 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: 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

Title: Antigua and My Life Before
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Antigua vida mía
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 0385498012
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, wakes to read that her closest friend, Violeta, has suffered a brutal tragedy. Assisted by the "others", a chorus of female ancestral spirits, the two women discover they can… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Antigua and My Life Before
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Marcela Serrano
Original work: Antigua vida mía
Publisher: Anchor Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9780385498029
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: Antipodes
Translator(s): Alastair Reid
Author: Ignacio Padilla
Original work: Las antípodas y el siglo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 0374105332
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a meditation on the nature of identity and, on the unsuspected tragedies inflicted on people by the chaos of war.
Literary Genre: Short story genre, Short stories, Psychological fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: Antwerp
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 78 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217170
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Title: Any Wednesday I'm Yours
Translator(s): James Graham
Author: Mayra Santos-Febres
Original work: Cualquier miércoles soy tuya
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 159448001
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction -- 2005, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Noir fiction, Romans

Title: Anywhere, Anytime
Translator(s): Stella Fernández
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Cambridge BrickHouse
City: Lawrence, MA
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 125 pp.
ISBN: 9781598350517
Summary/Reviews: () Anywhere, Anytime deals with the consequences of war as they affect art, culture, thought, and human feelings. Through 15 short pieces set in different historical periods, the author offers a critical view on the incompatibility of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman
Translator(s): Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: El beso de la mujer araña
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9780873528177
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-… read more

Title: Argentina: A Traveler's Literary Companion
Translator(s): Jill Gibian
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Whereabouts Press
City: Berkeley, CA
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9781883513191
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explores the ever-changing landscape of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english