Junot Díaz
Novelist, Author
1968 –
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Who is Junot Díaz?
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.
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- Born
- Dec 31, 1968
Santo Domingo - Also known as
- Junot Diaz
- Ethnicity
- Dominican American
- Nationality
- Dominican Republic
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Fine Arts, Cornell University
( - 1995) - Kean University
- Rutgers University
- Cedar Ridge High School
- Master of Fine Arts, Cornell University
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Dominican Republic
- Massachusetts
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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