La Bloga: GUEST INTERVIEW: JUNOT DÍAZ
Tagged: blog, Dominican Republic, oscar de la hoya, Professor, ShakiraPosted on: October 21st, 2007“Junot Díaz burst onto the literary scene in 1996 with Drown, a collection of 10 tales from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. It later won the PEN/Malamud Award.
That same year, the young writer, who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, was featured on the cover of Newsweek (along with Oscar De La Hoya and Shakira) and named one of ten “New Latin Faces of 1996.”
Since then The New Yorker has named him one of the 20 top writers of the 2lst century. He has since received a Guggenheim Fellowship and more recently a Rome Prize Fellowship. Díaz, now 38, is a tenured professor of creative writing at MIT.”*
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