NMLP P-020752 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Fish in the Water: A Memoir

Mario Vargas Llosa · Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) · 1994

First edition in English of the memoir El pez en el agua (Spanish original, Editorial Seix Barral, 1993). A UK edition (Faber and Faber) also appeared; the FSG issue is the American first, identified by the stated 'First edition' line.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020752 for "A Fish in the Water: A Memoir" by Mario Vargas Llosa (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020752, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).