Pablo Bellene

Pablo Bellene was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and emigrated to Germany, where he studied, worked, and experienced firsthand many of the questions explored in this book.

“Home is where you don’t have to ask permission to be who you are.”

A civil engineer and curious observer of human processes, Pablo writes from the perspective of someone who had to learn how to live between languages, distances, farewells, paperwork, jobs, silences, and new ways of belonging.

He wrote the book first in Spanish, as Lo que nadie te cuenta de emigrar, and then rebuilt it in English himself. The English edition is credited to him as both author and translator.