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 Oxford Murders
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Guillermo Martínez
Original work: Crímenes imperceptibles
Publisher: Penguin Group
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 197 pp.
ISBN: 9780143037965
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9780812977301
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retreated to a tower overlooking the Spanish coast, where he paints a vast mural incorporating the indelible images of conflict he’s witnessed in his lifetime.One night,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Painter of Battles
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El pintor de batallas
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781400065981
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Fictional work, Psychological fiction, Translations, Fiction, War stories, Romans

Title: The Palimpsests
Translator(s): Beth Bryer
Author: Aleksandra Lun
Original work: Los palimpsestos
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 105 pp.
ISBN: 9781567926521
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Przesnicki, an Eastern-European immigrant writer, has survived long toilet paper lines of communist Poland, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction

Title: The Paris Enigma
Translator(s): Mara Lethem
Author: Pablo de Santis
Original work: Enigma de París
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 244 pp.
ISBN: 9780061479670
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in Paris for their inaugural meeting during the 1889 World's Fair, an exclusive society of the world's most renowned detectives wonders at the absence of its co-founding member, who has sent a secret message about a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo De Santis ; translated from Spanish by Mara Lethem.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Historical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Passion According to Carmela
Translator(s): Carolina De Robertis
Author: Marcos Aguinis
Original work: La pasión según Carmela
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 268 pp.
ISBN: 9781503905382
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is a time for upheaval in Cuba: the time to build a new society. Even from her position of privilege, idealistic divorcée Carmela Vasconcelos sees the waves of uprising and is caught up in the excitement. Persuaded by her… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, History, Political fiction, Romance fiction

Title: The Plain in Flames
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: El llano en llamas, y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9780292743854
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books—the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: The Plain in Flames = El Llano En Llamas
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: El llano en llamas, y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9780292725836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books: the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: The Plain in Flames = El Llano en Llamas
Translator(s): Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum
Author: Juan Rulfo
Original work: El llano en llamas, y otros cuentos
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9780292725836
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two booksthe novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, Translations, Nouvelles

Title: The Planets
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Sergio Chejfec
Original work: Los planetas
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 227 pp.
ISBN: 9781934824399
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mysterious explosion turns the narrator's thoughts to a missing childhood friend and their friendship.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Poet's Wedding
Translator(s): Susan Giersbach-Rascón
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: La boda del poeta
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Number of pages: 288 pp.
ISBN: 9781566492492
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the 19th century, a successful store owner, Stamos Marikanis, marries GemaUs most beautiful woman. But his bride dies in a bizarre accident. Twenty years later, Stamos comes back to life in the form of Jeronimo… read more

Title: The Polish Boxer
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: Eduardo Halfon
Original work: El boxeador polaco
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 188 pp.
ISBN: 9781934137536
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his… read more

Title: The Pope's Secrets : Uncovering the Vatican Conspiracy Against the Church
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Camilo Perez
Original work: Los secretos del papa : destapando la conspiración vaticana contra la iglesia
Publisher: Epaphax Books
City: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9780971904606

Title: The Postman
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Antonio Skármeta
Original work: Ardiente paciencia
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 112 pp.
ISBN: 9780393330397
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tender book about a simple man and what he learns about poetry, love, politics and life from his friend.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Potbellied Virgin
Translator(s): Amalia Gladhart
Author: Alicia Yánez Cossío
Original work: La Cofradía del Mullo del Vestido de la Virgen Pipona
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 176 pp.
ISBN: 9780292714106
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon - La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin) - conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history has been dominated by the women of the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: The Power of the Relic
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: José Vicente Bonilla Franco
Original work: El poder & la reliquia
Publisher: Milat-Books
City: Gilbertsville, KY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 360 pp.
ISBN: 9780976515104

Title: The Price of Paradise
Translator(s): Achy Obejas
Author: Susana López Rubio
Original work: El encanto
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 372 pp.
ISBN: 9781542093620
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm,… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History

Title: The Prince of Mist
Translator(s): Lucia Graves
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: El Príncipe de la Niebla
Publisher: Little, Brown
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 214 pp.
ISBN: 9780316044776
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Literary Genre: Young adult fiction, Young adult works, Fiction, History, Juvenile works, Paranormal fiction, Occult fiction

Title: The Prince of the Skies
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Antonio Iturbe
Original work: A cielo abierto
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 534 pp.
ISBN: 9781250806987
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans