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: August
Translator(s): Jennifer Croft
Author: Romina Paula
Original work: Agosto
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Bildungsromans
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Picador
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 374 pp.
ISBN: 9780312427245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Humorous fiction, Romance fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
Original work: La tía Tula
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 171 pp.
ISBN: 0486445062
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In La tía Tula, Unamuno paints a memorable portrait of the indomitable Aunt Tula, who fulfills her maternal desires on her own terms.
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Lysander Kemp
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Original work: Aura
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9780374511715
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young scholar, employed by an aged widow to edit her husband's memoirs, falls in love with her niece in this novella of horror and beauty. 
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
City: Thorndike, ME
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 287 pp.
ISBN: 9781643581576
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought… read more
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Literary Genre: Large type books, Fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction
Translator(s): Gretchen Abernathy
Author: Mario Escobar
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
City: Nashville, Tennessee
Year of Publication: 2018
Number of pages: 281 pp.
ISBN: 9780785219958
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict… read more
Literary Genre: Large type books, Fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction, Christian fiction
Title: Austral
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Original work: Austral
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 207 pp.
ISBN: 9780374606657
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Mala índole
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 100 pp.
ISBN: 9780811218580
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But… read more
Translator(s): Esther Allen
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Number of pages: 57 pp.
ISBN: 0811218589
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 9781936070954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains fourteen short crime stories set in Barcelona, including selections by Santiago Roncagliolo, Imma Monso, Valerie Miles, and others.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811215911
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters from literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Translator(s): Jonathan Dunne
Author: Enrique Vila-Matas
Original work: Bartleby y compañía
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 178 pp.
ISBN: 0811216985
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any… read more
Literary Genre: Romans
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Severo Sarduy
Original work: Pajaros de la playa
Publisher: Otis Books/Seismicity Editions
City: Los Angeles, CA
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 9780975592489
Translator(s): Adrienne Mitchell
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: Bella y oscura
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781879960824
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of the childhood, both real and imagined, of a girl who journeys from the loneliness of an orphanage to the poor neighborhood where a singular family takes her in: Grandmother Barbara, a woman with a powerful presence;… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Kurt Hollander
Author: Mario Bellatin
Original work: Salón de belleza.
Publisher: City Lights Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 63 pp.
ISBN: 9780872864733
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a… read more
Literary Genre: Literatura hispanoamericana- -- méxico, Novela- -- s xx
Translator(s): Stephen John Clark
Author: Denzil Romero
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, md
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 132 pp.
ISBN: 0761817557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Title: Berta Isla
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Berta Isla
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 480 pp.
ISBN: 9780525521365
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Fictional work, Fiction, Spy fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Olivia Sears
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 529 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785152
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 222 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785305
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University Press of Florida
City: Gainesville, FL
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 283 pp.
ISBN: 0813017858
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english