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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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Junot Díaz
said · Sep 2012
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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.

NPR interview (September 2012)

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Junot Díaz
said · Jul 2014
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Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic.

Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014)

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Junot Díaz
said · Jul 2014
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If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.

Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014)

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Awards 11

2019Américas Award
2012MacArthur Fellows Program
2009O. Henry Award
2008Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2008Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2008Great Immigrants Award
2007National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
2002PEN/Malamud Award
1999Guggenheim Fellowship
1998Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT
Rome Prize

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1968 · age 57
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