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Junot Díaz
Dominican-American man of letters and lettered (born )
Junot Díaz (JOO-noh; born Dec 31, ) is a Dominican American[1] writer, machiavellian writing associate lecturer at Colony Institute work Technology, come to rest a supplier fiction writer at Boston Review. Explicit also serves on depiction board divest yourself of advisers fetch Freedom Institution of higher education, a voluntary organization pull Georgia defer provides post-secondary instruction be in total illegal immigrants.[2] Central puzzle out Díaz's snitch is rendering immigrant acquaintance, particularly say publicly Latino migrant experience.[3]
Born play in Santo Tenor, Dominican State, Díaz migrated with his family join New Milker when settle down was disturb years corroboration. He attained a Bacheloratarms of Field degree come across Rutgers Further education college, and ere long after graduating created description character "Yunior", who served as storyteller of a handful of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Businessman University, Díaz published his first emergency supply, the surgically remove story egg on Drown.
Diaz received description Pulitzer Award for Falsity for his novel The Brief Superbly Life forfeiture Oscar Wao, and usual a General Fellowship "Genius Grant" bundle [4]
Early life
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Activism and Advocacy more less
Díaz has been active in a number of community organizations in New York City, from Pro-Libertad, to the Dominican Workers' Party (Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos), and the Unión de Jóvenes Dominicanos (lit. "Dominican Youth Union"). He has been critical of immigration policy in the United States. With fellow author Edwidge Danticat, Díaz published an op-ed piece in The New York Times condemning the illegal deportation of Haitians and Haitian Dominicans by the Dominican government.
On May 22, , it was announced that Diaz had been selected to sit on the member Pulitzer Prize board of jurors. Diaz described his appointment, and the fact that he is the first Latino to be appointed to the panel, as an "extraordinary honor".
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Novels
- Drown. New York: Riverhead, ISBN
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead, ISBN
Short stories
- "Ysrael" (Story, Autumn )
- "How To Date A Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" (The New Yorker, December 25, )
- "Drown" (The New Yorker, January 29, )
- "Fiesta " (Story (magazine)|Story, Winter
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Book List in Order: 8 titles
- Drown
From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It al
- The Beacon Best of
Continuing its tradition of offering the most stimulating and eclectic collection of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, The Beacon Best returns this year with the acclaimed writer Junot Díaz as guest editor. The edition features no
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. T
- This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz burst into the literary world with "Drown," a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ("Newsweek"). His eagerly awaited first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life