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Junot Díaz (/ ˈ dʒ uː n oʊ /; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review.
Junot Díaz is the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and the critically acclaimed Drown.
Learn about Junot Díaz, the Dominican-American author of Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This Is How You Lose Her. Find out his background, achievements, and current roles as a professor and workshop cofounder.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey in the United States, where Díaz was raised, and it deals with the Dominican Republic's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo.
- Junot Díaz
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Junot Diaz has had his fiction published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and four times in The Best American Short Stories. His critically praised, bestselling debut book, Drown, led to his inclusion among Newsweek's "New Faces of 1996" - the only writer in the group.
Jul 20, 2022 · Junot Díaz: I always knew Oscar was (in the inimitable phrase of Carol Clover’s) “scheduled for destruction.” The book began with the title, strangely enough. A title that gave me the DNA ...
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places.
