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Gerardo Beltrán

Polish Spanish

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A Mexican poet and translator, professor at the University of Warsaw. Head of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translation at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, University of Warsaw. He has published nine volumes of his own poems and more than 30 translated books (mostly from Polish). His scholarly interests include poetic and intersemiotic translation, as well as the relationships between poetic language, ecology, and science. He is an honorary member of the Association of Polish Writers, a member of the Union of Lithuanian Literary Translators, ASLE (Association for the Study of Language and the Environment), and the Tropinka Association for Dialogue. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México in the field of literary translation.

Translations

  • Wisława Szymborska, El gran número, Fin y principio y otros poemas, Hiperión, Madrid, 1997. ISBN 84-7517-614-3, 197 s. (co-translator).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Poesía no completa, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2002. ISBN 968-16-6388-8, 374 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Instante, Igitur, Tarragona, 2004. ISBN 84-95142-33-3, 86 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Tadeusz Różewicz, Siempre fragmentos. Obra poética 1945-2006 (edición, selección, traducción y notas), Bid & Co. editor, Caracas, 2006. ISBN 980-6741-38-2, 204 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Dos puntos, Igitur, Tarragona, 2007. ISBN 978-84-95142-53-5, 79 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Poesía no completa, (second edition) Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2008. ISBN 978-968-1608597-3, 412 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Deszcz Wierszy nad Warszawą, Warszawa, Casagrande / Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa, 2009. ISBN 978-83-60830-29-1, 129 s. (with Abel Murcia, Marcin Sendecki, Maciej Ziętara).
  • Michał Rusinek, El pequeño Chopin, Wydawnictwo Znak / The Frydeyryk Chopin Institute, Kraków, 2009. ISBN 978-83-240-1113-1, 34 s.
  • Enrique Sánchez Abulí, Jordi Bernet, Alex Toth, Torpedo, Wydawnictwo Taurus Media, Warszawa, 2009. ISBN 978-83-60298-42-8, 143 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Aquí, Bartleby Editores, Madrid, 2009. ISBN 978-84-92799-06-0, 70 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Leszek Engelking, Museo de la Infancia / Muzeum dzieciństwa, 3ntretr3s, Zaragoza, 2010. ISBN 978-84-937-657-4-3, 18 s. (with Abel Murcia and Xavier Farré).
  • Enrique Sánchez Abulí, Jordi Bernet, Alex Toth, Torpedo 2, Wydawnictwo Taurus Media, Warszawa, 2010. ISBN 978-83-60289-48-0, 144 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Amor feliz y otros poemas, Bid & co. editor, Caracas, 2010. ISBN 980-6741-89-8, 88 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Jordi Bernet, E.S. Abulí, Torpedo 3, Wydawnictwo Taurus Media, Warszawa, 2010. ISBN 978-83-60289-54-1, 144 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Jordi Bernet, E.S. Abulí, Torpedo 4, Wydawnictwo Taurus Media, Warszawa, 2011. ISBN 978-83-6029860-2, 144 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Jordi Bernet, E.S. Abulí, Torpedo 5, Wydawnictwo Taurus Media, Warszawa, 2011. ISBN 978-83-60298-64-0, 144 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Traslaciones. Poetas traductores 1939-1959 (ed. Tedi López Mills), Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2011. ISBN 978-607-16-0818-5, s.711-735 (poems by Herbert, Miłosz, Różewicz, Szymborska, Wierzyński, Wojaczek, Zagajewski, Geda and Venclowa).
  • Poesía a contragolpe. Antología de poesía polaca contemporánea (autores nacidos entre 1960 y 1980), Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 2012. ISBN 978-84-15274-52-0, 396 s. (with Abel Murcia and Xavier Farré).
  • Gustavo Wojciechowski, Trasiego, Yaugurú, Montevideo, 2012. ISBN 978-9974-8335-4-8, 59 s. (co-translator).
  • Julian Tuwim, A Locomotiva, Qual Albatroz, Sintra, 2012. ISBN 978-989-95581-7-5 32 s. (into Portuguese with José Carlos Dias).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Y hasta aquí, Versus / Posdata Editores, México, 2012. ISBN 978-607-8264-02-5, 38 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Szymborska, Wisława, Hasta aquí, Bartleby Editores, Madrid, 2014. ISBN 978-84-92799-77-0, 65 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Tuwim, Julian, A Locomotiva (second edition), Qual Albatroz, Sintra, 2014. ISBN 978-989-869615-1, 37 s. (with José Carlos Dias).
  • Poetic Group Rebjata, International, Czuły Barbarzyńca Press, Warszawa, 2015. ISBN 978-83-62676-43-9, 157 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Saltaré sobre el fuego, Nørdica libros, Madrid, 2015. ISBN 978-84-16440-01-6, 144 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Julia Fiedorczuk, Oxígeno (Poemas 2000-2017). La Otra, México, 2017. ISBN 978-607-8167, 126 s.
  • Enrique Sánchez Abulí; Eduardo Risso, Torpedo 1972, Sonia Draga, Katowice, 2017. ISBN 978-83—8110-182-0, 61 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Enrique Sánchez Abulí; Jordi Bernet, Torpedo Integral 1936, Sonia Draga, Katowice, 2017. ISBN 978-83—8110-185-1, 720 s. (with Jakub Jankowski).
  • Luz que fue sombra: diecisiete poetas polacas (1963-1981). Vaso Roto, Madrid, 2021. ISBN 978-84-123487, 366 s. (with Abel Murcia).
  • Wisława Szymborska, Poesía completa. Visor Libros, Madrid, 2023. ISBN 978-84-9895-541-5, 735 s. (with Abel Murcia and Katarzyna Mołoniewicz).
  • Julian Tuwim, Lokomotywa w 50 językach, Universitas, Kraków, 2025. ISBN 978-83-242-4069-2, 113 s. (into Portuguese with José Carlos Dias).

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