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): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 516 pp.
ISBN: 0374293414
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The grandson of Laura Díaz provides the story of his grandmother, a lover of great men and "a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Harvest
City: San Diego, CA
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 528 pp.
ISBN: 9780156007566
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Feminist fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Julio Llamazares
Original work: La lluvia amarilla
Publisher: Harcourt
City: Orlando, FL
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 130 pp.
ISBN: 0151005982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Irene Vasco
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
City: Grand Rapids, MI
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 9780802856173
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images
Translator(s): Susana Bayó Belenguer
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780773474048
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This study examines the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalban, a Spanish creative writer and socio-political commentator, focusing on his Carvalho series of detective novels, which span some 25 years. Bayo Bellenguer (Spanish, Dublin… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Tim Compton
Author: Ignacio Solares
Original work: No hay tal lugar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
City: Bloomington, IN
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 107 pp.
ISBN: 9781434371850
Translator(s): Leland H. Chambers
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Publisher: Grove Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 180 pp.
ISBN: 9780802137869
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Historical fiction
Translator(s): Erica Mena
Author: Sara Ventas
Publisher: Montlake Romance
City: Las Vegas, NV
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781477808597
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Romance is the last thing on Sofia’s mind. She’s excited to start her new life in Málaga, in the perfect ocean-view apartment her friend Manu found her. Far away from her ex-fiancé, she’s thrilled to get a fresh start and to… read more
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Original work: Aquí no es Miami
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 147 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228053
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Milena Busquets
Original work: También esto pasará
Publisher: Harvill Secker
City: London
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9781910701072
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shocked at the unexpected loss of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realises that she has no idea what her future will look like. To deal with her dizzying grief and… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Valerie Miles
Author: Milena Busquets
Original work: También esto pasará
Publisher: Hogarth
City: London
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 9781101903704
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like. To ease her dizzying grief and… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Original work: Novelas ejemplares
Publisher: Dover Publications
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 275 pp.
ISBN: 0486451526
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the stories of a gypsy romance, a dialogue between two dogs, and a day in the underworld of eighteenth-century Seville, written in the baroque language of Cervantes' era.
Literary Genre: Translations into english, Novellas, Action and adventure fiction, Translations
Translator(s): Sharon Wood
Author: Marcelo Birmajer
Original work: Tres mosqueteros
Publisher: Toby Press
City: New Milford, CT
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 211 pp.
ISBN: 9781592641932
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after 20 years of absence to mourn his two friends--two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised 'the three musketeers'.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Original work: Tres tristes tigres
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 487 pp.
ISBN: 1564783790
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Así empieza lo malo
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 443 pp.
ISBN: 9781101946084
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier Marías
Original work: Así empieza lo malo
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: London
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 507 pp.
ISBN: 9780241972823
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel's wife Beatriz is a soft, ripe woman who slips… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, Love stories
Translator(s): Daniel Balderston
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781590177679
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Translator(s): Hardie St. Martin
Author: Sylvia Iparraguirre
Original work: Tierra del fuego
Publisher: Curbstone Press
City: Willimantic, CT
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 1880684721
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Sea stories, Romans
Translator(s): Howard Curtis
Author: Francisco Coloane
Original work: Tierra del Fuego
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 187 pp.
ISBN: 9781933372631
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nine short stories set in the bleak and unforgiving landscape of Chile's southern islands explores the harsh reality of the baseness of human nature.
Translator(s): Nathan C. Henne
Author: Luis de Lión
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
City: Tucson, AZ
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 119 pp.
ISBN: 129919205
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction