Latin Author
⚡ 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 INFORMATION AVAILABLE CLICK HERE 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻
15 Books by Latino & Latin American Authors to Add to Your 2020 Reading List
A new year is here, and with it comes the promise of a fresh crop of fantastic books by Latino authors for you to read. Because of publisher schedules, we mostly know about what’s coming in the first half of the year, and we can say that 2020 is already promising to be a fantastic year for Latino and Latin American writers.
From a magical version of Brooklyn and postcolonial love poems to a horrifying dystopia where eating human flesh is legal and an exhausting 6,000-mile run through colonized lands, these books of 2020 will take you on a journey.
Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older
Get your Christmas gift cards ready, because the conclusion to Daniel Jose Older’s fantastic Shadowshaper trilogy hit shelves the first week of January, and if you haven’t already, you’ll want to pick it up. Previous books in the series have dealt with topics like gentrification and police violence against Black communities, all in a gorgeously fantasy-laced Brooklyn, New York. Legacy continues protagonist Sierra’s journey in finding out how to use her powers responsibly and keep her family safe but delves deeper into shadowshaper lore. If you haven’t read the rest of the Shadowshaper books, it’s a great way to spend the early months of 2020.
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
When a group of children from a small town in Mexico discovers the body of the Witch, her death becomes a catalyst for a hurricane of words and perspectives from different villagers. Gossip, speculation and personal narratives, each touching on the Witch’s life, ensue. Hurricane Season is a book about femicide and the small communities left behind by global capitalism that plays with elements of magic as well as the “malas vibras” that reside after the increasingly-tempestuous hurricane seasons of the title. Melchor has been an acclaimed author in Mexico for some time, but Hurricane Season is her first book translated into English.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem does what the title says it does: it is a book of poems about love, desire and longing that begins in the body. But it’s not just any body. Instead, it’s an Indigenous Latina’s body. What does it mean to desire when so much of history has been bent on the destruction of your love? What does it look like when we hold other bodies — bodies of water, bodies of mountains, forests and animals — as dear as our own? Postcolonial Love Poem is an ode to existence and against erasure.
When Noé Álvarez, the son of Mexican immigrants, first heard about Peace and Dignity Journeys, a group of Indigenous activists that embark on treks from Alaska to Guatemala, he found the sense of belonging he had lacked in his time as a first-generation college student. Spirit Run is the story of Álvarez’s 6,000-mile journey through lands that were once Indigenous, and it includes the narratives of others on his journey, all of them confronting legacies of loss and dispossession while exploring the landscape of the Americas.
Julia Alvarez is back! After a nearly 15-year break between adult novels, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies returns this year with a new book. This time, she focuses on a recently-widowed literature professor who meets an undocumented girl and in her grief must answer the question: What do we owe each other? This book promises to be another beautiful addition to the gifts the Dominican-American author has already given us.
Breakbeat Poets vol. 4: Latinext ed. By Felicia Chavez, Jose Olivarez and Willie Perdomo
The Breakbeat Poets series comes from Haymarket Books and seeks to highlight poetry with hip-hop aesthetics, including single-author works and wider anthologies like this one. Latinext is the first compiled work to include essays from Latino writers located across the U.S. In these pages, you’re sure to find fresh poetry from both familiar names (Jose Olivarez, Citizen Illegal) and new faves.
Laura Mimosa Montes is a poet from the Bronx, New York. In Thresholds, she returns to the expansive arts scene of the borough in the ‘70s and ‘80s, looks at the potential vibrant and artistic future of her neighborhood and questions her own role as a bridge between both. The book delves deep into the forces moving through a neighborhood often seen as peripheral and in an artist living in it: gentrification, loss and a wild hope.
Although we’re guaranteed to be getting a lot of election coverage in 2020, you won’t regret making room for Running. Author Natalia Sylvester is mostly known for her two adult books, Chasing the Sun and Everybody Knows You Go Home, but Running represents a new foray for her: young adult literature. Mari, the 15-year-old protagonist, is the daughter of a presidential candidate, and dealing with all the press, tabloids and attention to her family is proving challenging. But it’s not nearly as difficult as when Mari realizes that her father’s politics and political career are not what they seem and she is forced to decide what to do and if to use her voice, all while in the national spotlight.
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Two sisters, one in the Dominican Republic and the other in New York City, lose their father in a fateful plane crash one summer. In the aftermath, each discovers the existence of the other. Amid their grief, they learn to become friends and sisters. Clap When You Land is Elizabeth Acevedo’s return to the novel-in-verse that was featured in The Poet X and a continuation of her exploration of the lives of Afro-Latina teens that we saw in With the Fire on High. Pro tip: for the full Acevedo experience, check out the audiobook — she reads like no one else.
If Black Mirror is your thing, Little Eyes is a book for you. “Kentukis” are the little eyes of the title: somewhere between webcam, robot and ghost, they allow people to peer into the lives of others and travel halfway around the world just to walk down the street. Schweblin is the master of the almost-familiar yet definitely-uncanny, and this book is no different.
The Book of Rosy by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo
Rosayra Pablo Cruz is one of the mothers affected by President Donald Trump’s family separation policy, and The Book of Rosy touches on her experiences, including the horrific conditions she and her children endured as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, when they were detained, being separated and more. Julie Schwietert Collazo, Rosy’s co-writer, is the founder of the foundation Immigrant Families Together.
Yadriel is a trans boy living in a community where brujeria is split among genders: brujas can heal and brujos can release lost souls in the afterlife. After his cousin dies, Yadriel is determined to prove himself a brujo and performs the spell to bring him back, except he doesn’t get his cousin. Instead, he gets his high school’s bad boy, Julian. Rather than returning to the afterlife, Julian is determined to tie up some loose ends, and Yadriel has no choice but to be around for the ride. Cemetery Boys is an extremely fun paranormal YA romance.
A Silent Fury: El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
One hundred years after the El Bordo mine fire in Pachuca, Mexico, Yuri Herrera has reconstructed the horrific accident that left 87 people dead and a U.S. mining company off scot-free. With his trio of books set in the narco-war borderlands, Herrera has shown that he’s a master of the short, tense fiction, and with A Silent Fury, he proves it further, this time venturing into a more historical mode.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
An old mansion in 1950s Mexico. Dark family secrets. A panicked letter from a cousin who says she’s afraid her beguiling new husband is trying to kill her. And a plucky debutante with perfect lipstick and a fearless determination to get to the bottom of things. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic promises to be a dark, dazzling read that explores the legacy of British mining in Mexico and delivers a delicious mystery.
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses
It’s some indeterminate point in the future, and thanks to widespread animal disease, eating human meat is now legal. Marcos runs a slaughterhouse for humans, and when he’s presented with a particularly beautiful woman bred for consumption, he’s haunted by her and tempted to overturn the rules of the society in which he lives. It’s sure to be an unrelentingly dark, thought-provoking narrative that will stay with you.
Sign up for our newsletter and receive the coolest updates!
By clicking “Accept All Cookies”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts.
Cookies Settings Accept All Cookies
12 Latina Authors You Should Be Reading Right Now
If you’re an avid reader like me, then you’re always searching for the next book to read or writer to follow. So if you’ve already worked your way through Sandra Cisneros and Isabel Allende, I’m here to introduce you to a few of the other Latina writers who have changed the game in the last decade or so. Below, find 12 Latina writers you need to have on your radar because they’re serving up varied storylines, three-dimensional characters, and everything else you’d look for in a good book.
With more than six novels published, Puerto Rican-Dominican author Sofia Quintero, who hails from the Bronx, is no stranger to the publishing world. She’s a hip-hop activist who writes edgy, intelligent novels for women under the pseudonym Black Artemis. Her critically acclaimed adult debut novel, Explicit Content, illuminates what the rap game is like for women in the industry. In 2010, Quintero published her first young adult novel, Efrain’s Secret from Knopf, which received rave reviews.
Her latest is called Show and Prove, a raw and poignant story of music, urban plight, and racial tension that’s as relevant today as in 1983 when the book takes place. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and has worked with many social justice organizations throughout the country. Quintero was also a 2017 Made in NY Writers Room fellow and currently developing one of her novels into a television show.
A post shared by Kat Fajardo (@katfcomix) on Dec 1, 2017 at 4:22pm PST
Honduran and Colombian award-winning comic artist and illustrator Kat Fajardo is one budding writer to keep an eye on. Her mini comic Gringa! expresses years of personal struggle with cultural identity through assimilation, racism, and fetishization of Latin culture as an American Latina that is so, so, so, relevant today. A graduate of The School of Visual Arts, she’s editor of La Raza Anthology and creator of Bandida Comics series. She’s collaborated with Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk (Penguin Random House), CollegeHumor, and several anthologies. You can find her working at her Brooklyn studio creating playful and colorful work about self-acceptance and Latinx culture. She has a forthcoming graphic novel.
A post shared by IBI ZOBOI (@ibizoboi) on May 12, 2018 at 8:35am PDT
Ibi Zoboi, who hails from Haiti, is turning the vodou stereotype on its head with her debut novel for teens called American Street, a National Book Award Finalist. Zoboi immigrated to New York with her mother when she was 4 years old and believed everything about her new home was both strange and magical. This influenced why she loves reading and writing science-fiction, fantasy, and mythology. Her forthcoming young adult novel, Pride, is a smart, funny remix of Pride and Prejudice featuring Zuri Benitez, a Dominican lead who fights to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.
A post shared by Veronica Chambers (@vvchambers) on Apr 5, 2018 at 7:01am PDT
Panama-born and Brooklyn-raised, Veronica Chambers is a prolific author best known for her memoir, Mama’s Girl, which hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the country have added to their curriculums. Chambers often writes about her Afro-Latina heritage and is currently a John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University. She writes for both adults, teens, and children. She has also collaborated with many celebrities, such as Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan, and Timbaland. Her latest work for teens is called The Go-Between, a coming-of-age novel that explores issues of identity and belonging in a world that is ever-changing, and which TheNew York Times called “smart and zany, the YA book we could all use right now.”
A post shared by Sala De Cine (@saladecine) on Jun 22, 2016 at 3:58am PDT
Rita Indiana is a Dominican writer, and singer-songwriter. Drawing on her memories of childhood split between Santo Domingo and visits with her father in the United States, Indiana pens Papi: A Novel anddeftly blends together satire, horror with science fiction, in a swirling tale of a daughter’s love, the lure of crime and machismo, and the violence of the adult world. In 2011, El País named her one of the 100 Most Influential Latino Personalities.
A post shared by Carmen Maria Machado (@carmenmmachado) on May 20, 2018 at 5:08pm PDT
Carmen Machado’s debut, Her Body and Other Parties, has been listed by TheNew York Times as a member of “The New Vanguard” and one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” If that doesn’t make you want to read her book then I don’t know what else will! Her Body and Other Parties was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. If you haven’t read this book yet, you need to add it to your to-be-read pile yesterday.
A post shared by Jasminne Mendez (@jasminnemendez) on May 4, 2018 at 9:34am PDT
“My poetry is the barbaric yawp that I will sound from all the rooftops of the world, because it is the only way I can be sure my words will echo!” this quote can be found on the website of Jasminne Mendez, a Dominican poet and a force to be reckoned with. Mendez is a Canto Mundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow, and a current MFA creative writing candidate at the Rainier Writing Workshop at the Pacific Lutheran University.
Her second book, Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays & Poem, recently published in April by Arte Public Press, has already received rave reviews. Her multi-genre memoir, Island of Dreams, was awarded Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book by the International Latino Book Awards in 2015. Mendez has also won the COG Poetry Prize for her poems, “Run, Irelia, Run,” “Bounty,” and “Return to Water.” She is the founder and program director of the Houston-based Latino literary arts organization Tintero Projects, and a co-host to the poetry and writing podcast series InkWell, a collaboration between Tintero Projects and Inprint Houston.
A post shared by Duende District Bookstore (@duendedistrict) on Apr 13, 2018 at 5:25am PDT
Malka Older debuted on the scene with her first critically acclaimed novel, Infomocracy, in 2016 which The Huffington Post called “one of the greatest literary debuts in recent history.” Writing in a genre dominated by white male authors, this is a huge win for the Latinx community. But if you want more reason to follow Malka, then you should know that Infomocracy also became a Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel, a Campbell Award Finalist, a KirkusBest Fiction of 2016, Book Riot’s Best Books of 2016, and one of The Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016.
Older is not only a writer but a humanitarian worker, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations studying governance and disasters. Named Senior Fellow for Technology and Rick at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in international Affairs for 2015, she has more than eight years of experience in humanitarian aid and development, and has responded to complex emergencies and natural disasters in Uganda, Indonesia, Japan, and Mali. Her latest in The Centenal Cycle includes Null States (on-sale now) and State Tectonics (forthcoming September 2018).
A post shared by Lilliam Rivera (@lilliamr) on Apr 28, 2018 at 1:30pm PDT
Award-winning author Lillam Rivera’s work has appeared in Lenny letter, Tin House, Los Angeles Times, Latina, USA Today, Cosmo for Latinas, Bellevue Literary Review, The Rumpus, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Rivera is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 Clarion alumni with a Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. She has been awarded fellowships from PEN Center USA, A Room of Her Own Foundation, and received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her short story “Death Defiant Bomba” received honorable mention in Bellevue Literary Review’s 2014 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and she also received honorable mention in the 2018 James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award.
Her debut YA contemporary novel The Education of Margot Sanchez was nominated for a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and has received coverage on NPR, New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, MTV.com, and Teen Vogue. Her next book, Dealing in Dreams, is set for a 2019 release.
A post shared by Yesika Salgado (@yesikastarr) on May 22, 2018 at 1:18pm PDT
Yesika Salgado, a Salvadoran-American from Los Angeles, is a poet who writes about her family, her cultura, her city, and her brown body. She has shared her work in venues and campuses throughout the country. In the last few years, she self-published zines of poetry titled The Luna Poems, WOES, and Sentimental Boss Bitch. She is a three-time member of Da Poetry Lounge Slam Team and a 2017 National Poetry Slam finalist. Her latest, Corazón, is a love story about the constant hunger for love. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere: her fat brown body, her parents’ home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or a song. It is a celebration of heartache, of how it can ruin us, but most importantly how we always survive it and return to ourselves whole.
A post shared by Daisy Hernandez (@iamdazeher) on Jul 25, 2014 at 5:14pm PDT
Daisy Hernández is the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed, a coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new queer life. This heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language in A Cup of Water Under My Bed is ultimately a daughter’s story of finding herself and her community while creating and exploring a new queer life. Hernández is also the co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Hernández
Out Free Porn
Holes 2003
Korean Seks 18
Latin Lovers La Camisa
Ftv Girls Upskirt
List of Latin American writers - Wikipedia
16 Books By Latina Authors That I'm Definitely Adding To ...
25 Best Books by Hispanic Authors - New Latinx Books to Read
List of Roman Authors — Latinitium
thelatinoauthor.com
Latin Author
