Creator Bio
Ilan Stavans
b. 1961
Ilan Stavans was born and raised in Mexico City and moved to the United States in 1985. His essays, stories, cultural analyses, and translations reflect his interest in immigrant groups and popular culture, especially Jewish and Spanish culture. Stavans is a professor of Latino and Latin American culture at Amherst College. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, and the National Jewish Book Award.
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On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
[…] [I]f suddenly Mexico and Israel went to war, on which side would I fight? My cowardly answer was plain and simple: “I really wasn’t cut out to be a soldier. So on neither one, since I’m a pacifist…