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): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9780399153839
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El sol de Breda
Publisher: Plume
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 282 pp.
ISBN: 9780452289741
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/
Author: Claudio Orrego Vicuña
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
City: Scranton, PA
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 82 pp.
ISBN: 9781589662186
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.
Translator(s): Sabina C. Becker
Author: Lupita Dominguez
Publisher: Editorial Mazatlan
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9781937799199
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With stories collected through years of work as a table dancer, these true tales uncover a world of night clubs filled with housewives, mothers, students, drug addicts, minors, and illegal aliens working as dancers. The stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
Original work: El mal de la taiga
Publisher: Dorothy, a Publishing project
City: St. Louis, MO
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 9780997366679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down-- that she… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Original work: El cantor de tango
Publisher: Bloomsbury
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1582346011
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: El maestro
Publisher: Harper Muse
City: Nashville, TN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9780785252177
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Original work: El maestro
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 413 pp.
ISBN: 9781638084860
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Paul Antill
Author: Juan Manuel de Prada
Original work: La tempestad
Publisher: Overlook Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9781585673872
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objects d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Paul Antill
Author: Juan Manuel de Prada
Original work: La tempestad
Publisher: Overlook Press
City: Woodstock, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 1585673870
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting, "The Tempest," Spanish art historian Alejandro Ballesteros witnesses a murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's academic world and a… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Mempo Giardinelli
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 93 pp.
ISBN: 1891270109
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realize they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Mempo Giardinelli ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Tercer Reich
Publisher: Picador
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780330510547
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Tercer Reich
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780374275624
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction
Author: Luis Fernández Ardavín
Original work: Los tres mosqueteros
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub.
City: Milwaukee, WI
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 36 pp.
ISBN: 9780836876642
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan joins the three musketeers and tries to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Romans
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: María Dueñas
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 615 pp.
ISBN: 9781451616880
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Time In Between follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
Additional Information: Responsibility: María Dueñas ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War stories, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: María Dueñas
Publisher: Atria Paperback
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 615 pp.
ISBN: 9781451616897
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War stories, Fiction, History
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: María Dueñas
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 805 pp.
ISBN: 9781410446275
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forges a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rises to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, War stories, Fiction, History
Author: Enrique Gaspar
Original work: El anacronópete
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
City: Middletown, CT
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 196 pp.
ISBN: 9780819572936
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) H.G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronopete--"He who flies against time"--Eight years before Wells's influential work appeared.… read more
Additional Information: With illustrations by Francesc Soler from the original 1887 edition.
Literary Genre: Science fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Isaac Goldberg
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Original work: Entre naranjos
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 240 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez delves into the political power and influence of the Brull family in the District of Alcira. The novel explores the rise of don Ramón Brull and his wife, doña Bernarda, as… read more
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: Juan Gómez-Jurado
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 321 pp.
ISBN: 9781439198780
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Literary Genre: War stories, Historical fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History