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: Amalia
Translator(s): Helen R. Lane
Author: José Mármol
Original work: Amalia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
City: Oxford
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 664 pp.
ISBN: 0195122763
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo… read more

Title: American Delirium
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Betina González
Original work: América alucinada
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781250621276
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From award-winning novelist Betina González, a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen, forcing its citizens to confront the secrets of their past and rely on… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: American Delirium
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: Betina González
Original work: América alucinada
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 210 pp.
ISBN: 9781250621283
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the same time, a group of protesters decides to live… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: American Dreams
Translator(s): Heather Moore Cantarero
Author: Eduardo González Viaña
Original work: Los sueños de América
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 1558854479
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) No one knows how Porfirio entered the United States. Some say he traveled on the winds of a sandstorm, others say he walked over the hills, and still others say he flew. In the first story of this collection, Porfiro, the… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Nouvelles

Title: American Visa
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan de Recacoechea
Original work: American visa
Publisher: Akashic Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 260 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354200
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Among Strange Victims
Translator(s): Christina MacSweeney
Author: Daniel Saldaña París
Original work: En medio de extrañas víctimas
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 218 pp.
ISBN: 9781566894302
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to… read more
Literary Genre: Marriage -- fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction, Humorous fiction

Title: Among the Hedges
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Cara de pan
Publisher: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 128 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Nouvelles

Title: Amulet
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Amuleto
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217460
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Amulet
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Original work: Amuleto
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 184 pp.
ISBN: 9780811216647
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tour de force, "Amulet" is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: An Address in Havana : Selected Short Stories = Domicilio Habanero
Translator(s): Barbara Riess
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Cubanabooks
City: Chico, CA
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 228 pp.
ISBN: 0982786034
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This bilingual collection highlights Llana's most critically successful stories. The female protagonists and the convergence of narrative times within a limited space - an address in Havana - present a compelling portrait of… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: An Easy Thing
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Cosa fácil
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2002
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 241 pp.
ISBN: 1590580060
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: An Easy Thing : A Héctor Belascoarán Shayne Detective Novel
Translator(s): William I. Neuman
Original work: Cosa fácil
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
City: Scottsdale, AZ
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 229 pp.
ISBN: 9781590580066
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: An Empty House
Translator(s): Andrea G. Labinger
Author: Carlos Cerda
Original work: Una casa vacía
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 9780803215245
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An Empty House depicts the dissolution of an upper-middle-class family against a chilling background of exile, return, and discovery. The stark and moving narrative suggests the enormity of the horrors perpetrated in Chile… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: An Englishman in Madrid
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Eduardo Mendoza
Original work: Riña de gatos : Madrid 1936
Publisher: MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781623656065
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose… read more
Literary Genre: Suspense fiction, Fiction, History, Thrillers (fiction)

Title: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original work: Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 87 pp.
ISBN: 0811216306
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von… read more
Literary Genre: Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english, Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english, Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
Translator(s): Sarah Pollack
Author: Alain-Paul Mallard
Original work: Evocación de Matthias Stimmberg
Publisher: Wakefield Press
City: Cambridge, MA
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 45 pp.
ISBN: 9781939663733
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has produced, whose… read more

Title: An Impossible Balance
Translator(s): Gustavo Pellón
Author: Mempo Giardinelli
Original work: Imposible equilibrio
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta
City: Newark, DE
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781588711717
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: An Open Secret
Translator(s): Ian Barnett
Author: Carlos Gamerro
Original work: El secreto y las voces
Publisher: Pushkin Press
City: London
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9781908968340
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's An Open Secret is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.

Title: And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers
Translator(s): Dick Gerdes
Author: Gonzalo Celorio
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 152 pp.
ISBN: 9780292719118
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Gonzalo Celorio ; translated by Dick Gerdes ; foreword by Ruben Gallo.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Andean Express
Translator(s): Adrian Althoff
Author: Juan Recacoechea S.
Original work: Altiplano express
Publisher: Akashic
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 172 pp.
ISBN: 9781933354729
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, History