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: Just Jesus : The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus of Nazareth
Translator(s): Trinidad Ongtangco-Regala
Author: José Ignacio López Vigil, María López Vigil
Original work: Un tal Jesús
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
ISBN: 0824518365
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on radio plays, this collection retells the gospel of John, an epic story with several twists and turns. Each chapter includes a reflection offering background information and an understanding of sociology, politics,… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Biographical fiction, Christian fiction

Title: Just passing through
Translator(s): Martin Michael Roberts
Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Original work: De paso
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press.
City: El Paso, TX
Year of Publication: 2000
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 173 pp.
ISBN: 0938317474
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this ... adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II is searching for a hero, specifically a leftist hero, and he thinks he has found him in the person of Sebastian San Vicente. But… read more
Literary Genre: Romans, Action and adventure fiction

Title: Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Translator(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Kalpa imperial
Publisher: Small Beer Press
City: Easthampton, MA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 1931520054
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization, from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: Kalpa Imperial : The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Translator(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Angélica Gorodischer
Original work: Kalpa imperial
Publisher: Ibooks, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 246 pp.
ISBN: 9781416504115
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Literary Genre: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Translations

Title: Kamchatka
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Marcelo Figueras
Original work: Kamchatka
Publisher: Atlantic
City: London
Year of Publication: 2011
ISBN: 9781843548270
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Kamchatka
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Marcelo Figueras
Original work: Kamchatka
Publisher: Black Cat
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 311 pp.
ISBN: 9780802170873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Marcelo Figueras ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Novels, Fiction, History, Romans

Title: Kensington Gardens
Translator(s): Natasha Wimmer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 370 pp.
ISBN: 9780374181017
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Peter Hook is the son of mid-sixties rock-star parents, but has managed to become a successful children's author of a series of action books and movies. This work is an exploration of the charms and perils of children's… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Romans

Title: Kill the Next One
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Federico Axat
Original work: La última salida
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2016
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 407 pp.
ISBN: 9780316354219
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery stories, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction, Suspense fiction, Thrillers (fiction), Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction

Title: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El Reino del Dragón de Oro
Publisher: Harper Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 437 pp.
ISBN: 9780061825125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) ixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy… read more

Title: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel Allende
Original work: El Reino del Dragón de Oro
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 437 pp.
ISBN: 9780060589424
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy… read more

Title: Klail City
Translator(s): Rolando Hinojosa
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Original work: Klail City y sus alrededores
Publisher: Arte Público Press
City: Houston, TX
Year of Publication: 2014
ISBN: 9781611928631
Other titles: Klail City - Klail City y sus alrededores
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The second installment in Rolando Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series returns to South Texas, where Mexicans and Anglos share an uneasy coexistence. Don Aureliano Mora waits three years for justice… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Mexican fiction, Romans

Title: La Bastarda
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Trifonia Melibea Obono
Original work: La bastarda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York City
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: First Feminist Press edition
Number of pages: 101 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932238
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: La Bastarda
Translator(s): Lawrence Schimel
Author: Trifonia Melibea Obono
Original work: La bastarda
Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 104 pp.
ISBN: 9781936932245
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, Novels, Romans

Title: Larva : Midsummer Night's Babel
Translator(s): Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Julián Ríos
Original work: Babel de una noche de San Juan
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Normal, IL
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 585 pp.
ISBN: 1564783685
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Las Luces de Septiembre
Translator(s): Desconocido/Unknown
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: Las luces de septiembre
Publisher: Harper Collins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2008
Number of pages: 317 pp.
ISBN: 9780061724336

Title: Last Evenings on Earth
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 0811216349
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.Contents:                Sensini ; Henry Simon Leprince ; Enrique Martín ; A literary… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Last Night of Carnival and Other Stories
Translator(s): H. E. Francis
Author: Norberto Luis Romero
Original work: El momento del unicornio
Publisher: Leaping Dog Press
City: San Jose, CA
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 137 pp.
ISBN: 1587750155
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middle class values of… read more
Literary Genre: Translations

Title: Last Words on Earth
Translator(s): Katie Whittemore
Author: Javier Serena
Original work: Últimas palabras en la Tierra
Publisher: Open Letter
City: Rochester, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 153 pp.
ISBN: 9781948830324
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack… read more
Literary Genre: Picaresque literature, Fictional work, Picaresque fiction, Novels, Fiction, Romans picaresques, Romans

Title: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Translator(s): Stanley Appelbaum
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Original work: Lazarillo de Tormes : A Dual-Language Book
Publisher: Dover
City: Mineola, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 103 pp.
ISBN: 9780486414317
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long considered by many scholars to be the first picaresque novel (or the precursor of all such novels), Lazarillo de Tormes made its initial appearance in Spain in the middle of the 16th century, on the heels of an era of novels… read more

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Translator(s): Gregory Rabassa
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: HarperCollins
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 146 pp.
ISBN: 006075155X
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents:                Leaf storm -- The… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english