Junot Díaz
Author · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 57
Junot Díaz 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.
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2019Américas AwardAward2014“Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic.”In their wordsJuly 2014Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014)“If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.”In their wordsJuly 2014Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014)2012“I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you know, I went to school and it was basically the same.”In their wordsSeptember 2012NPR interview (September 2012)MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward2009O. Henry AwardAward2008Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAwardGreat Immigrants AwardAwardPulitzer Prize for FictionAward2007National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAward2002PEN/Malamud AwardAward1999Guggenheim FellowshipAward1998Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MITAward1968Born31 December 1968
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Born 1968 · age 57
