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: Turing's Delirium
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
Original work: El delirio de Turing
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston, MA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 291 pp.
ISBN: 9780618541393
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans, General info: other format available: online version:; paz soldán, edmundo, 1967-; delirio de turing english; turing's delirium; boston : houghton mifflin, 2006

Title: Turkey Day = El Día del Guajolote
Translator(s): Glenn Gardner
Author: Regina Moya García
Original work: El día del guajolote
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 309 pp.
ISBN: 9781539657040
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Regina, the author and main character of our story, is chased by her duties as a mother and homemaker, the transit authorities, Thanksgiving supper, her longing to write a new novel, and characters from stories written years… read more

Title: Turned to Stone : A Jaime Azcárate Adventure
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Jorge Magano
Original work: La mirada de piedra : una aventura de Jaime Azcárate
Publisher: Amazoncrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2015
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 370 pp.
ISBN: 9781503946347
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he’s enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than… read more

Title: Two Bodies
Translator(s): Claire Hirsch
Author: Nicolás Poblete
Original work: Dos cuerpos
Publisher: CreateSpace
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781500441869
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two Bodies is a text that obliquely intersects Chilean national history and the personal history of Esteban, stories that circle graves and bodies and that end up running into each other at a red letter. Fragments of events in… read more
Literary Genre: Linked stories, Political fiction, Psychological fiction

Title: Two Spies in Caracas
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: Moisés Naím
Original work: Dos espías en Caracas : una historia casi ficticia de amores y conspiraciones en los tiempos de Hugo Chávez
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 334 pp.
ISBN: 9781542016698
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Venezuela, 1992. CIA agent Eva and her Cuban counterpart, Mauricio, must deal with each other, imprisoned crime lord Pran, journalist Mónica, and Swiss banker Günther Müller while reacting to Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and… read more

Title: Two Stories
Translator(s): Jessica Sequeira
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Sublunary Editions
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 51 pp.
ISBN: 9781734976632
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writing of the late Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940-1985) resists almost any attempt to characterize, let alone summarize. An iconoclastic figure of the Latin American literary milieu of the mid-to-late twentieth century,… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Two Women
Translator(s): Barbara F. Ichiishi
Author: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Original work: Dos mujeres
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
City: Lewisburg, PA
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 273 pp.
ISBN: 9781684483150
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1842 a young Cuban woman published in Spain a riveting tale of love and death, so radical in its point of view that it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Centering on Catalina the Countess of S… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction

Title: Tyrant Banderas
Translator(s): Alberto Manguel, Peter R. Bush
Author: Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Original work: Tirano Banderas
Publisher: New York Review Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 200 pp.
ISBN: 9781590174982
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: Tyrant Memory
Translator(s): Katherine Silver
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Original work: Tirana memoria
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 270 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219174
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who… read more
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, spanish, Black humor, Fiction, History, Black humor (literature), Historical fiction, Humour noir

Title: Un Amor : A Novel
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Sara Mesa
Original work: Un amor
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830775
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in La Escapa, an arid rural village in Spain's interior. She settles into a small, shabby house with cheap rent to begin work on her first literary translation, with a skittish and… read more

Title: Uncivil Wars : Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
Translator(s): Sandra Messinger Cypress
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: University of Texas Press
City: Austin, TX
Year of Publication: 2012
Number of pages: 247 pp.
ISBN: 9780292737778
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Under the Bridge : Stories from the Border
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Rosario Sanmiguel
Original work: Callejón Sucre y otros relatos
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 232 pp.
ISBN: 1558855149
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations

Title: Under the Texas Sun = El Sol De Texas [Bilingual Edition]
Translator(s): Ethriam Cash Brammer
Author: Conrado Espinoza
Original work: El sol de Texas
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2007
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 257 pp.
ISBN: 9781558854802
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Under the Water
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Paul Pen
Original work: Un matrimonio perfecto
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 301 pp.
ISBN: 9781542042062
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What does the perfect family have to fear most? The perfect stranger. From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He's a loving husband, she's a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But… read more
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Fiction, Suspense fiction

Title: Undiscovered
Translator(s): Julia Sanches
Author: Gabriela Wiener
Original work: Huaco retrato
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a… read more
Literary Genre: Autobiographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Única Looking at the Sea = Única Mirando Al Mar
Translator(s): Elaine Brooks
Author: Fernando Contreras Castro
Original work: Única mirando al mar
Publisher: Diálogos Books
City: New Orleans, LA
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 170 pp.
ISBN: 9781944884291
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Inside the great landfill at Río Azul, Única and her friends, her family, society's cast-offs, struggle to survive on what those in the city throw away…

Title: Until She Goes No More and Other Stories
Translator(s): Jacqueline C. Nanfito
Author: Beatriz García-Huidobro
Original work: Hasta ya no ir y otros textos
Publisher: White Pine Press
City: Buffalo, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 169 pp.
ISBN: 1945680563
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Til She Go No More, Beatriz García Huidobro simultaneously maps the coordinates of the intimate story of a female teenager and the broader historical and socioeconomic reality of Chile in the early 70’s. The story is narrated… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Fiction, History

Title: Uselessness
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Eduardo Lalo
Original work: La inutilidad
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 185 pp.
ISBN: 9780226207797
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought--and of love--can both inspire and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Title: Usmaíl
Translator(s): Charlie Connelly
Author: Pedro Juan Soto
Original work: Usmaíl
Publisher: Sombrero Pub.
City: St. John, US Virgin Islands
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780964122086
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a… read more

Title: Vacation Stories : Five Science Fiction Tales
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 245 pp.
ISBN: 0252026551
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans