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: 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

Title: Angels & Loners
Translator(s): Patrick G. Blaine
Author: Ramón Díaz Eterović
Original work: Angeles y solitarios
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 267 pp.
ISBN: 9781503904248
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: Animals at the End of the World
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Gloria Susana Esquivel
Original work: Animales del fin del mundo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 133 pp.
ISBN: 9781477320167
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Animals at the End of the World begins with an explosion, which six-year-old Inés mistakes for the end of the world that she has long feared. In the midst of the chaos, she meets the maid's granddaughter, Maria, who becomes her… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction

Title: Antagony
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Luis Goytisolo
Original work: Antagonía
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Dallas, TX
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 914 pp.
ISBN: 9781628973983
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Translations

Title: Antagony. Book I, Recounting
Translator(s): Brendan Riley
Author: Luis Goytisolo
Original work: Recuento
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 648 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971729
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Antagony Book I: Recounting surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The novel follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

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