TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
Observatorio Instituto Cervantes - Harvard University
 |  |
Translations
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Gabriel García MárquezOriginal work: En agosto nos vemos
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Number of pages: 97 pp.
ISBN: 9780593946602
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
Translator(s): Jacqueline C. Nanfito
Author: Beatriz García-HuidobroOriginal 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 LaloOriginal 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 SotoOriginal 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
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
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
City: Urbana, IL
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 272 pp.
ISBN: 9780252073557
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Science fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Jasper Reid
Author: Martín CaparrósOriginal work: Valfierno
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 342 pp.
ISBN: 9780743297936
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who became one of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Novels, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 248 pp.
ISBN: 9780811223461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career], "Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: Varamo
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César AiraOriginal work: Varamo
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 89 pp.
ISBN: 9780811217415
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans
Title: Variations on the Body
Translator(s): Heather Cleary
Author: María Ospina PizanoOriginal work: Azares del cuerpo
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 113 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896108
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories, Translations, Nouvelles
Title: Violeta
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Violeta
Publisher: Ballantine Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 322 pp.
ISBN: 9780593496206
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Violeta
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Violeta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
City: London
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 320 pp.
ISBN: 9781526648365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: Violeta
Publisher: Random House Large Print
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2022
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 446 pp.
ISBN: 9780593558713
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the… read more
Literary Genre: Magic realism (literature), Fictional work, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Domestic fiction, Novels, Romans
Title: Vlad
Translator(s): E. Shaskan Bumas, Alejandro Branger
Author: Carlos FuentesOriginal work: Vlad
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787798
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asunción Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Literary Genre: Horror tales, Occult fiction, Suspense fiction, Horror fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Paranormal fiction, Vampire fiction, Fiction, Novels
Title: Voltaire's Calligrapher
Translator(s): Lisa Carter
Author: Pablo de SantisPublisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 149 pp.
ISBN: 9780061479885
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As calligrapher for the great Voltaire, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders-- and finds himself in the middle of a secret battle between the malevolent remnants of the all-but-dead Dark Ages and the progressive elements of… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo de Santis ; translated by Lisa Carter.
Literary Genre: Thrillers (fiction), Suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction, History
Title: Voyage Along the Horizon
Translator(s): Kristina Cordero
Author: Javier MaríasOriginal work: Travesía del horizonte
Publisher: Believer Books
City: San Francisco, CA
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 182 pp.
ISBN: 1932416404
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Marias's second novel was written in the early '70s when he was 21, and it has all of the stylistic grace and wry invention that has put Maras on the Nobel shortlist. An unnamed narrator ruminates on the intentions of a man (… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction, Sea stories
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona FernándezOriginal work: Voyager
Publisher: Graywolf Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 108 pp.
ISBN: 9781644452172
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls. As the author stares at the image of her mother's brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical… read more
Title: Waiting for Robert Capa
Translator(s): Adriana V. Lopez
Author: Susana FortesOriginal work: Esperando a Robert Capa
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2011
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9780062000385
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gerta Pohorylle meets Andre Friedmann in Paris in 1935 and is drawn to his fierce dedication to justice, journalism, and the art of photography. Assuming new names, [they] travel together to Spain, Europe's most harrowing war… read more
Literary Genre: Romance fiction, Fiction, Biographical fiction
Title: Water Log
Translator(s): Peter Kahn
Author: Hugo ClementeOriginal work: Cuaderno de agua
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 167 pp.
ISBN: 9781947980389
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Water Log is a love story and a travel narrative always in perfect tension between departure and arrival. It is a novel that begins anew with every story, and with the same sense of agility and dare of his character, it always… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Hugo Clemente ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Kahn.
Title: Way Far Away
Translator(s): Victor Meadowcroft, Anne McLean
Author: Evelio RoseroOriginal work: En el lejero
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 82 pp.
ISBN: 9780811238076
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as "one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades. In search of his missing… read more
Literary Genre: Novels© 2026 - Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos