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Mario López-Goicoechea

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Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner

Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner

A reflection from an immigrant's perspective on life and culture, language and writing from a non-native speaker's point of view.

2021

Mario López-Goicoechea

Mario López-Goicoechea

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The Wind Phone

My Mother’s Nine-Month Journey to the Other Side

She was the only passenger aboard. We all stayed silently ashore

Mar 5, 2024

My Mother’s Nine-Month Journey to the Other Side

Mar 5, 2024

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Age of Empathy

Why It’s Good to Talk to Strangers

As humans, we’re natural-born story-tellers; let’s share those stories

Nov 22, 2023

Why It’s Good to Talk to Strangers

Nov 22, 2023

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Writers’ Blokke

Why I Wrote “Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner”

My book is a call to strengthen the bonds that unite us

Dec 8, 2024

Why I Wrote “Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner”

Dec 8, 2024

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The Shortform

How to Be a Good Writer (According to Zadie Smith)

Practical, no-nonsense, and achievable tips

Nov 11, 2022

How to Be a Good Writer (According to Zadie Smith)

Nov 11, 2022

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Writers’ Blokke

Lost in Translation

Why the act of rendering a text into another language is more than mere correct placement of words and sentences

4h ago

Lost in Translation

4h ago

Published in
Iberospherical

Remembering the Girl with the Mousy Hair Three Decades After

What “Life on Mars?” meant to a Cuban teenager after the fall of the Berlin Wall

3d ago

Remembering the Girl with the Mousy Hair Three Decades After

3d ago

Published in
Globetrotters

A Bus-hopping Adventure in Londontown

What happens when I decide to leave my bicycle behind and climb on board of a double-decker instead?

6d ago

A Bus-hopping Adventure in Londontown

6d ago

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Writers’ Blokke

Coffee, Reflections, and Music

When is swearing not really swearing? When it’s creative, of course

Jan 9

Coffee, Reflections, and Music

Jan 9

Published in
The Howling Owl

Urban Diary

Atlas House: still standing in the heart of The City

Jan 8

Urban Diary

Jan 8

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ILLUMINATION

Will This Be the Year of the (Downward) Dog?

The Chinese zodiac is optional, of course

Jan 4

Will This Be the Year of the (Downward) Dog?

Jan 4

Mario López-Goicoechea

Mario López-Goicoechea

10.2K Followers

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London-based, Cuban writer. Author of “Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner” https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6886/9781528994293 https://acubaninlondon.medium.com/membership

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