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: January
Translator(s): Frances Riddle, Maureen Shaughnessy
Author: Sara Gallardo
Original work: Enero
Publisher: Archipelago Books
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 114 pp.
ISBN: 9781953861641
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. Nefer measures the… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Social problem fiction, Novels

Title: Jawbone
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Original work: Mandíbula
Publisher: Coffee House Press
City: Minneapolis, MN
Year of Publication: 2022
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 264 pp.
ISBN: 9781566896214
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?… read more
Literary Genre: Horror fiction, Fictional work, Novels, Romans

Title: Job-Boj
Translator(s): Monica Ruiz Anderson
Author: Jorge Guzmán
Original work: Job-Boj
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Victoria, TX
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 290 pp.
ISBN: 9781628971651
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Written in alternating voices, Jorge Guzman's JOB BOJ is a captivating novel that explores the progression from melancholy to happiness, or vice versa. The delicate interplay between a light-hearted narrator and a brooding,… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Experimental fiction, Fiction

Title: Juan de la Rosa
Translator(s): Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Original work: Juan de la Rosa
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 302 pp.
ISBN: 9780554344720
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's… read more

Title: Juan Martín El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan Martín, El Empecinado
Translator(s): Alva Cellini
Author: Benito Pérez Galdós
Original work: Juan Martín, el Empecinado
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
City: Lewiston, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 256 pp.
ISBN: 0773477799
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Juan the Landless
Translator(s): Peter R. Bush
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Original work: Juan sin tierra
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2009
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785275
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

Title: Juanita La Larga
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan Valera
Original work: Juanita la Larga
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 259 pp.
ISBN: 9780813214351
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: Julia
Translator(s): Sandra Kingery
Author: Ana María Moix
Original work: Julia
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
City: Lincoln, NE
Year of Publication: 2004
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 0803232357
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco's forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction, Romans

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
Author: Rodrigo Fresán
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: Kianny N. Antigua : Short Fiction
Translator(s): Noah Myers
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Aster(ix)
City: Pittsburgh, PA
Year of Publication: 2014
Number of pages: 46 pp.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contents:                 El tragaluz del sótano = The cellar hatch / Dalila = Dalila / Entre copos, sudores y fritanga = Between snowflakes, sweat and fried meat / Interview with… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

Title: Kill the Ámpaya! : The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
Translator(s): Dick Cluster
Author: Varios/Multiple
Original work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
City: Simsbury, CT
Year of Publication: 2016
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9781942134268
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly literary to the… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english

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: Kill The Next One (Large Print Edition)
Translator(s): David L. Frye
Author: Federico Axat
Original work: La última salida
Publisher: Thorndike Press
City: Waterville, ME
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 627 pp.
ISBN: 9781410498182
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