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: The Dream of the Celt
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: El sueño del celta
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 358 pp.
ISBN: 9781250033321
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world. But when he dared to draw a parallel… read more

Title: The Dreamed Part
Translator(s): Will Vanderhyden
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
Original work: La parte soñada
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 545 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830058
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Following his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called 'God particle', The Writer from The Invented Part can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: The Eagle's Throne
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: La silla del águila
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 336 pp.
ISBN: 1400062470
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the near future, at a meeting of the United States Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is… read more
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Fiction, Epistolary fiction

Title: The Empress
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Original work: Carlota : la princesa belga que reinó en América Latina
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2020
Number of pages: 393 pp.
ISBN: 9781542004800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's 1863. Napoleon III has installed a foreign monarch in Mexico to squash the current regime. Maximilian von Habsburg of Austria accepts the emperor's crown. But it is his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Princess Charlotte,… read more

Title: The Encounter
Translator(s): Elwin Wirkala
Author: Rita Wirkala
Original work: El encuentro
Publisher: All Bilingual Press
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 292 pp.
ISBN: 9780989257985
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Encounter weaves a story of adventure, romance, immigration and the social realities of Latin America, beginning with the infamous dumping of toxic waste into the pristine Amazonian jungles of Ecuador by the Texaco oil… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works

Title: The End of Love
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Marcos Giralt Torrente
Original work: Final del amor
Publisher: McSweeney's
City: San Francisco
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781938073564
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Four short stories explore the mysteries of love and how distance between lovers develops.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Marcos Giralt Torrente ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Literary Genre: Short stories, Novels, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles, Romans

Title: The Enlightened Army
Translator(s): David William Foster
Author: David Toscana
Original work: El ejército iluminado
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 9781477317778
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico's northern neighbor steal a… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
Translator(s): Jennifer Shyue
Author: Augusto Higa Oshiro
Original work: La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 102 pp.
ISBN: 9781953861528
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Katzuo is at sea after being forced out of his job as a literature professor without warning. He retreats into flânerie, musing with imaginary interlocuters, roaming the streets, and reciting the poems of Martín Adán. Slowly, to… read more
Literary Genre: Novels

Title: The Entre Ríos Trilogy
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 2
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680595
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) As a trilogy, the novellas offer a powerful resistance against the socio-cultural invisibility of the Jewish immigrant populations, as well as a significant contribution to the literature of marginalization and exile. Suez… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Entre Ríos Trilogy : Three Novels
Translator(s): Rhonda Lee Dahl Buchanan
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of New Mexico
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9780826336163
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This collection brings together Perla Suez's first three novels written for adults. Translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, the novels take place in Entre Rios, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: The Eye of Cybele
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Original work: El ojo Dindymenio
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 463 pp.
ISBN: 9781888451252
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The central character of The Eye of Cybele is Alcibiades, a stutteringly precocious Athenian general whose physical beauty, unparalleled Olympic achievements, and reckless courage on the battlefield earn the fanatical… read more

Title: The Eye of Cybele
Author: Daniel Chavarría
Original work: El ojo Dindymenio
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 596 pp.
ISBN: 9781888451672
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Eye of the Cybele, Akashic's second release by celebrated Uruguayan mystery novelist Daniel Chavarrma, is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in late sixth-… read more

Title: The Faint-hearted Bolshevik
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Isabelle Kaufeler
Author: Lorenzo Silva
Original work: La flaqueza del bolchevique
Publisher: Hispabooks Publishing
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9788494094835
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An undisputed modern classic of contemporary Spanish literature, it has been constantly reprinted in Spain and made into a film.
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: other format available: print version:; silva, lorenzo; faint-hearted bolshevik; new york : hispabooks, ©2013

Title: The Fallen
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Original work: Los caídos
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 143 pp.
ISBN: 9781644450253
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Political fiction, Dystopian fiction, Novellas, Fiction

Title: The Family Interrupted
Translator(s): Ezra E. Fitz
Author: Eloy Urroz Kanan
Original work: La familia interrumpida
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 190 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787330
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When the poet Luis Cernuda flees Spain in February of 1938, he has no idea that he will never again set foot on his native land. In exile in England, his former lover finds him a disheartening job that only intensifies his… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction

Title: The Family of Pascual Duarte
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Camilo José Cela
Original work: La familia de Pascual Duarte
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Funks Grove, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 166 pp.
ISBN: 1564783596
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction

Title: The Family of Pascual Duarte
Translator(s): Anthony Kerrigan
Author: Camilo José Cela
Original work: La familia de Pascual Duarte
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9781628975055
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction

Title: The Famous Magician
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: El ilustre mago
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 60 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228893
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my general fantasizing about… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Farm
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince
Original work: La oculta
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 468 pp.
ISBN: 9780914671923
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pilar, Eva, and Antonio ℓngel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction

Title: The Farmer
Translator(s): Grace Maccarone, Kelly Loughman
Author: Ximo Abadía
Publisher: Holiday House Publishing Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
ISBN: 9780823441587
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Everyone is resting but Paul. Paul mows, rakes, sows, and draws water. Soon Paul has beautiful plants and flowers growing all around him. But one day, the water dries up. The sun beats down. Paul despairs. But thanks to his… read more
Literary Genre: Children's stories, Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images