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: Varamo
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: César Aira
Original 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 Pizano
Original 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 Allende
Original 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 Allende
Original 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

Title: Violeta (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): Frances Riddle
Author: Isabel Allende
Original 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 Fuentes
Original 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 Santis
Publisher: 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 Marías
Original 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

Title: Voyager : Constellations of Memory
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Author: Nona Fernández
Original 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 Fortes
Original 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 Clemente
Original 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 Rosero
Original 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

Title: Ways of Going Home
Translator(s): Megan McDowell
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Original work: Formas de volver a casa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 139 pp.
ISBN: 9780374286644
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; [illustrations on title and part title pages by Charlotte Strick].
Literary Genre: Political fiction, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Chilean fiction, Spanish fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans, Historical

Title: Weight of the Heart
Translator(s): Lilit Žekulin Thwaites
Author: Rosa Montero
Original work: El peso del corazón
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
City: Seattle, WA
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 335 pp.
ISBN: 9781503936461
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part human and part robot, private investigator Bruna Husky has been hired to locate a stolen diamond. But as Bruna's leads start to drop dead, her case becomes about much more than a stolen gem--and much more dangerous.… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Science fiction

Title: Welcome to Miami, Doctor Leal
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: René Vázquez Díaz
Original work: De pronto el doctor Leal
Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 189 pp.
ISBN: 9781891270529
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This endlessly engaging novel recounts the personal and political fortunes and misfortunes of Dr. Leal, a prestigious Cuban-American surgeon, who comes home to the Miami of his childhood to attend his brother's funeral. From the… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: West of Babylon
Translator(s): Nasario García
Author: Eduardo Garrigues
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
City: Albuquerque, NM
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 308 pp.
ISBN: 9780826323408
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spain in 1999, this adventure set in 19th-century New Mexico uses elements of the ancient Near Eastern myth of Gilgamesh to tell a violent tale of war and revenge, treasure hunting and witchcraft. Gil Gomez,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: What Comes Back
Translator(s): Robin Myers
Author: Javier Peñalosa M.
Original work: Los que regresan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
City: Port Townsend, WA
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 155 pp.
ISBN: 9781556596841
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Javier Peñalosa M.'s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers' English translations… read more
Literary Genre: Poetry, Translations

Title: What Goes Unsaid : A Memoir of Fathers Who Never Wdere
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Emiliano Monge
Original work: No contar todo
Publisher: Scribe
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Number of pages: 353 pp.
ISBN: 9781950354917
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1958, Carlos Monge McKey sneaks out of his home in the middle of the night to fake his own death. He does not return for four years. A decade later, his son, Carlos Monge Sánchez, deserts his family too, joining a guerrilla… read more

Title: What to Do
Translator(s): Priscilla Posada
Author: Pablo Katchadjian
Original work: Qué hacer
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 99 pp.
ISBN: 9781564787057
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall… read more
Literary Genre: Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: What We Become
Translator(s): Nick Caistor, Lorenza Garcia
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El tango de la guardia vieja
Publisher: Atria Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 453 pp.
ISBN: 9781476751986
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and… read more
Literary Genre: Romantic suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Fiction