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): R. Kelly Washbourne
Author: José Asunción Silva
Original work: De sobremesa
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9780292709799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jose Asuncion Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siecle novels and… read more
Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
Publisher: Svenson Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9780615955636
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Marcos Aguinis
Original work: La gesta del marrano
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 617 pp.
ISBN: 9781503949263
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction, History, Argentine fiction
Translator(s): Nicolás Kanellos
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 9781558859258
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the prologue to this inventive collection, the exhausted protagonist finally reaches the doors to paradise after an arduous journey, but the longed-for entrance doesn't have a handle or keyhole and there's no bell or intercom… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher: Restless Books
City: Brooklyn, New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781632060693
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms,… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Chilean fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Nancy K. Muñoz
Author: Braulio Muñoz
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 148 pp.
ISBN: 9780816526796
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a series of tales fashioned as an old fisherman's reflections, Peruvian-American author and sociologist Muñoz ("The Peruvian Notebooks") offers an elegiac lament for a disappearing way of life along Peru's Pacific coast.
Literary Genre: Sea stories, Fiction, General info: awards: international latino book award, 2009 - best novel - historical fiction - english other format available: online version:; muñoz, braulio,, 1946-; alejandro y los pescadores de tancay english; alejandro and the fishermen of tancay; tucson : university of arizona press, ©2008
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 9780811229456
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with… read more
Translator(s): Miranda France
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans
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: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 468 pp.
ISBN: 9781728283791
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Three years without seeing him. Three years without Axel. How do you move on from a broken heart? Three years have passed since Axel Nguyen shattered Leah Jones' heart into a million pieces, and Leah has spent every moment of… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Romance 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)
Title: Alma
Translator(s): Peter Kahn
Author: Javier Moreno
Original work: Alma
Publisher: Quantum Prose
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 117 pp.
ISBN: 9780997301410
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Kahn. This is not a book. As the title suggests, this is a soul: an Alma. But a soul, make no mistake about it, is not something from another world. It is a conglomeration of images… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental 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
Additional Information: Excerpt
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)