Junot Díaz (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. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
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American Short stories, Fiction, Dominican Americans, Short stories, Dominican americans, fiction, Ficción, New York Times bestseller, American fiction, Canadian Short stories, Canadian fiction, Dominicano-americanos, English & college success -> english -> fiction, Essays, Fiction, short stories (single author), History, Large type books, Literary, Literature, Manners and customs, New jersey, fiction, Novela, Short stories, american, Social life and customs, Spanish language materials, 813/.54People
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- ISNI: 0000000121411106
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