Junot Diaz

Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and raised in New Jersey. He is best known for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his short story collection Drown (1996). His work explores themes of immigration, identity, and the Latino immigrant experience, and he currently teaches creative writing at MIT.

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