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: 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
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 78 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219914
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories

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: Apocalypse Z : Dark Days
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
Author: Manel Loureiro
Original work: Los días oscuros
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 235 pp.
ISBN: 9781477809310
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn't have your back just might have your… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fiction, Dystopias

Title: Apocalypse Z : The Beginning of the End
Translator(s): Pamela Carmell
Author: Manel Loureiro
Original work: Apocalipsis Z : el principio del fin
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 324 pp.
ISBN: 9781612184340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a zombie breakout ravages Spain, a few survivors arrive in the Canary Islands, one of the last zones safe from the Undead. But there, they encounter a military state embroiled in a civil war with a hungry population without… read more
Literary Genre: Apocalyptic fiction

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

Title: Arrival of Spring
Translator(s): Erwin Taboada
Author: Felipe Pazos
Original work: Llegada de la primavera
Publisher: Xlibris
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781436303798
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Spaniard, born in Galicia, migrates to South America's western coast. Hard work, savings, and investments allow him to develop a prosperous enterprise. His son, and later Marco his grandson, expand the company. Domingo… read more

Title: Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y Su Visión del México Colonial
Translator(s): Dolores E. Rangel
Author: Dolores E. Rangel
Original work: Artemio de Valle-Arizpe y su visión del México colonial
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 243 pp.
ISBN: 9781588712066

Title: Ashes in Love
Translator(s): James Hoggard
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Host Publications
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9780924047725
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn. Hahn's work has been… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Oscar Hahn ; translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Ashes of Orchids : O'Neill in Buenos Aires
Translator(s): Nouha Gorani Homad
Author: Jorge Paolantonio
Original work: Ceniza de orquídeas
Publisher: Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 145 pp.
ISBN: 9781934978146
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugene O'Neill reached the port of Buenos Aires by the end of May 1910. He was just entering his twenties and possibly running away from a problematic family which would later become the core of some of his main dramatic… read more
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction

Title: Asleep in the Sun
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Original work: Dormir al sol
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 1590170954
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At… read more
Literary Genre: Allegories, Fiction, Allegories

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

Title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Original work: La tía Julia y el escribidor
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

Title: Aunt Tula = La Tía Tula
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

Title: Aura (Bilingual Edition)
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.