Gustavo Pérez Firmat

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Gustavo Pérez Firmat (born 1949) 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 1979 to 1999 and at Columbia University until 2022. 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.