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: 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. 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

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: Antón Mallick Wants to Be Happy
Translator(s): Thomas Bunstead
Author: Nicolás Casariego
Original work: Antón Mallick quiere ser feliz
Publisher: Hispabooks
City: Madrid
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9788494174483
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After an unexpected incident triggers his first anguish attack in months, Antón is dead set on putting an end once and for all to his woeful days.

Title: Antón Pérez : Manuel Sánchez Mármol's Novel of Race, War, and Passion
Translator(s): Terry Rugeley
Author: Manuel Sánchez Mármol
Original work: Anton Pérez : novela
Publisher: Cambria Press
City: Amherst, NY
Year of Publication: 2019
Number of pages: 233 pp.
ISBN: 9781604979602
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In 1904 Mexican author Manuel Sánchez Mármol published a short novel entitled Antón Pérez. It chronicles the origins and adventures of its eponymous hero, a poor and ethnically mixed young man from a small town in the remote… read more

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