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The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else


Gustavo Pérez Firmat

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Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Born: March 3, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: A writer and scholar, Gustavo Pérez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Miami-Dade Community College, the University of Miami, and the University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature.
Known for:
  1. Life on the hyphen (1994)
  2. Bilingual blues (1995)
  3. El año que viene estamos en Cuba (1997)
  4. The Cuban condition (1989)
  5. Tongue ties (2003)

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