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Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed "Drown"; "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "This Is How You Lose Her," a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is the co-founder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This Is How You Lose Her
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... acclaimed in the United States. But Junot Diaz, who arrived from the Dominican Republic at the age of 6, says he has never stopped feeling like an immigrant.
Best Books of 2013: Junot Diaz and Jaime Hernandez on their new illustrated ' This Is How You Lose Her'
In a new interview with Paradoxa, Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz speaks at length with Taryne Jade Taylor about the allure of genre fiction, colonialism ...
Japan Real Time talks with Junot Díaz, the Pulitzer prize and MacArthur grant- winning author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and “This is How You ...
Jersey scribe Junot Diaz novel ranked best of the 21st Century.
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