Gustavo Pérez Firmat

He is currently the David Feinson Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Columbia University. 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 1995. Life on the Hyphen, a study of Cuban-American culture, was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden Award for 1994 and received Honorable Mention in the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovács Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.

• Name — Gustavo Pérez Firmat • Born — 1949 • Birthplace — Havana, Cuba • Education — * Miami-Dade Community College • University of Miami • University of Michigan • Occupation — Writer, professor

Scholarly Works • Idle Fictions (Duke, 1982; rev. ed. 1993) • Literature and Liminality (Duke, 1986) • The Cuban Condition (Cambridge, 1989; rpt. 2005) • Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Duke, 1990) • Life on the Hyphen (Texas, 1994, Rpt. 1996, 1999; revised and expanded edition 2012); Spanish version: Vidas en vilo, Colibrí, 2000; rev. ed. Hypermedia, 2015) • My Own Private Cuba (Colorado, 1999) • Tongue Ties (Palgrave, 2003) • The Havana Habit (Yale, 2010) • The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature [Co-editor] (Norton, 2010) • A Cuban in Mayberry: Looking Back at America's Hometown (Texas, 2014) • Poesía romántica inglesa by Heberto Padilla [Editor] (Linden Lane Press, 2018) • Fuera del juego y otras poemas by Heberto Padilla [co-editor with Yannelys Aparicio Molina] (Ediciones Catédra, 2021) • Saber de ausencia. Lecturas de poetas cubanos (y algo más) (Renacimiento, 2022) Creative Works • Carolina Cuban (Bilingual Press, 1987) • Equivocaciones (Betania, 1989) • Bilingual Blues (Bilingual Press, 1995) • Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-Age in America (Doubleday 1995; rev. ed. 2000; rpt. Arte Público, 2005; Spanish version: El año que viene estamos en Cuba, Arte Público, 1997) • Cincuenta lecciones de exilio y desexilio (Universal, 2000; rev. ed. Hypermedia, 2016) • Anything But Love (Arte Público, 2000) • Scar Tissue (Bilingual Press, 2005) • The Last Exile (Finishing Line Press, 2016) • Sin lengua, deslenguado (Ediciones Cátedra, 2017) • Viejo Verde (Main Street Rag, 2019) • The Mayberry Chronicles (Finishing Line Press, 2021)

• A Poet's Truth: Conversations With Latino/Latina Poets. Interview by Bruce Allen Dick. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. • "Gustavo Pérez Firmat, poeta deslenguado." Interview by José Antonio Martínez. "Los personas del verbo." Onda regional de Murcia, November 25, 2017. • "Gustavo Pérez Firmat, con la lengua afuera." Interview by Yannelys Aparicio. Revista Letral 19 (2017): 139-145. • "Un barrio de La Habana llamado Miami, un suburbio de Miami llamado La Habana." Interview by Jorge Enrique Lage. Hypermedia Magazine. April 20, 2016. https: hypermediamagazine.com/2016/04/19/jorge-enrique-lage-un-barrio-de-la-habana-llamado-miami-un-suburbio-de-miami-llamado-la-habana • "Living in Parts, Dreaming of Wholeness." Interview by Aneta Pavlenko. Psychology Today. March 22, 2016. https: www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201603/living-in-parts-dreaming-wholeness • "¿Existe una literatura cubanoamericana?"Interview by José Prats Sariol. Diario de Cuba, January 18, 2014. http: www.diariodecuba.com/cultura/1389988797_6740.html • "For a Bilingual Writer No One True Language." National Public Radio Morning Edition. October 17, 2011. http: npr.org/2011/10/17/141368408/for-a-bilingual-writer-no-one-true-language • “El Derecho a la Equivocación: Conversación con Gustavo Pérez Firmat." Interview by Rolando Pérez (Cuban poet). Boletín de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. No. 14. 2011: 351-363. https: www.academia.edu/4895461/_El_Derecho_a_la_Equivocaci%C3%B3n_Conversaci%C3%B3n_con_Gustavo_P%C3%A9rez_Firmat_