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): Patricia J. Duncan
Author: David Toscana
Original work: Estación Tula
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 277 pp.
ISBN: 9780312270971
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Roger F. Fidler, Ada Fidler
Author: Luis Abelardo Nuñez
Original work: El regalo de Tungula
Publisher: FidlerHouse
City: Columbia, MO
Year of Publication: 2019
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 85 pp.
ISBN: 9781695363243
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tungula's Gift is the last short story written by Abelardo, one of Latin America's most revered composers and writers. It also is the first of his tales to be translated into English. In Tungula's Gift, Abelardo blends his… read more
Literary Genre: Biography, Biographies, Fiction
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
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
Translator(s): Simón Bruni
Author: Jorge Magano
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
Translator(s): Daniel Hahn
Author: Moisés Naím
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
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
Translator(s): Kevin Gerry Dunn
Author: Elaine Vilar Madruga
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 236 pp.
ISBN: 9780063330733
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Growing up on a Cuba-esque Caribbean island, Casandra, Calia, and Caleb endure life under two that of their parents, and the Island's authoritarian dictator, Pop-Pop Mustache. Papa was the dictator's former right-hand man. Now,… read more
Literary Genre: Feminist fiction, Spanish fiction -- translations into english, Cuban fiction -- translations into english, Satire (artistic device), Domestic fiction, Satirical literature
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
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
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
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
Translator(s): John Pluecker
Author: Rosario Sanmiguel
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
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
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
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
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…
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Original work: En agosto nos vemos
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 129 pp.
ISBN: 9780593801994
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with… read more
Literary Genre: Domestic fiction, Novels