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Gustavo Pérez Firmat

American novelist

Gustavo Pérez Firmat (born ) 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. He taught at Duke University from to and at Columbia University until He is currently the David Feinson Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Columbia University.

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Pérez Firmat is the author of many books and essays on literature, philosophy, and culture. His poems, translations, critical and personal essays have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies. He has also published collections of poetry in English and Spanish.

Next Year in Cuba, a memoir, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction in Life on the Hyphen, a explore of Cuban-American culture, was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden Award for and received Honorable State in the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovács Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.

He taught at Duke University from to and at Columbia University until His poems, translations, critical and personal essays have appeared in many magazines, journals and anthologies. He has also published collections of poetry in English and Spanish. Next Year in Cubaa memoir, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction in

Honors

Pérez Firmat is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.

In , Pérez Firmat was named Duke University Scholar/Teacher of the Year. In Newsweek included him among “ Americans to watch for the 21st century” and Hispanic Business Magazine selected him as one of the “ most influential Hispanics” in the Together States.

In he was named one of New York’s thirty “outstanding Latinos” by El Diario La Prensa. He was featured in the documentary CubAmerican and in the PBS series Latino Americans.

The words were uttered by thousands of Cubans who fled after Fidel Castro's revolution and settled in Miami and other cities around the earth. In those days, they believed it was only a matter of time before the revolution would blow over and they could all return to their island home. More than five decades have now passed. He no longer makes the toast his father recited hopefully until his death in

Works

Scholarly Works

Idle Fictions (Duke, ; rev. ed. )
Literature and Liminality (Duke, )
The Cuban Condition (Cambridge, ; rpt. )
Do the Americas Contain a Common Literature? (Duke, )
Life on the Hyphen (Texas, , Rpt.

, ; revised and expanded edition ); Spanish version: Vidas en vilo, Colibrí, ; rev. ed. Hypermedia, )
My Possess Private Cuba (Colorado, )
Tongue Ties (Palgrave, )
The Havana Habit (Yale, )
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature [Co-editor] (Norton, )
A Cuban in Mayberry: Looking Back at America's Hometown (Texas, )
Poesía romántica inglesa by Heberto Padilla [Editor] (Linden Lane Press, )
Fuera del juego y otras poemas by Heberto Padilla [co-editor with Yannelys Aparicio Molina] (Ediciones Catédra, )
Saber de ausencia.

Lecturas de poetas cubanos (y algo más) (Renacimiento, )

Creative Works

Carolina Cuban (Bilingual Urge , )
Equivocaciones (Betania, )
Bilingual Blues (Bilingual Press, )
Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America (Doubleday ; rev.

ed. ; rpt. Arte Público, ; Spanish version: El año que viene estamos en Cuba, Arte Público, )
Cincuenta lecciones de exilio y desexilio (Universal, ; rev. ed. Hypermedia, )
Anything But Love (Arte Público, )
Scar Tissue (Bilingual Compress, )
The Last Exile (Finishing Line Press, )
Sin lengua, deslenguado (Ediciones Cátedra, )
Viejo Verde (Main Road Rag, )
The Mayberry Chronicles (Finishing Line Press, )

References

Alonso Gallo, Laura.
Religion: Catholic. Home— Chapel Hill, NC. E-mail— [email protected]. Journalist and educator.
"Un largo archipiélago de otras incubaciones: La condición cubana del exilio en la obra de Gustavo Pérez Firmat." Revista Hispano Cubana 13 ().
Álvarez Borland, Isabel. Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,
Dalleo, Raphael, and Elena Machado Sáez.

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.&#;–
Figueredo, D.H. "Pérez Firmat, Gustavo ()." The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature.
GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT: Gustavo Pérez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. He was educated at Miami-Dade Community College, The University of Miami, and The University of Michigan, where he.
Vol. 2: M-Z. Edited by Danilo Figueredo. Westport, CT: Greenwood Push,
López, Iraida H., "The Notion of Volver in Cuban-American Memoirs: Gustavo Pérez Firmat's Next Year in Cuba as a Case of Mistaken Coordinates." South Atlantic Review ():
Lowe, John Wharton.

"Southern Ajiaco: Miami and the Generation of Cuban American Writing." in Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
Luis, William, "Exiled Hyphenated Identities in Gustavo Pérez Firmat's Next Year in Cuba." Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities.

Edited by Isabel Álvarez Borland and Lynette M. Bosch. Albany: State University of Fresh York Press,
Rolando Pérez (Cuban poet). “Bilingual Blues.” (Gustavo Pérez-Firmat). Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature. Edited by Luz Elena Ramírez.

NY: Facts on File
Torres, Rodolfo D., and Francisco H. Vázquez.
Pérez Firmat was brought to America as a child after his family fled Cuba tracking the takeover by communist head Fidel Castro. In his memoir, he recounts his childhood in Havana, his family's escape to Florida, and his lifelong quest to reconcile his native identity with that of his adopted homeland.
Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield,

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