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Posted on: April 8th, 2008
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Tags: Dominican Republic, family
Junot Díaz, a 39-year-old native of the Dominican Republic who moved to New Jersey as a boy, won the Pulitzer prize for fiction Monday for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
The novel, which also won the National Book Critics Award, revolves about Oscar, an obese comics fan growing up in Paterson, N.J., and his dysfunctional Dominican family, going back to the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship.”*
*From: http://www.nydailynews.com
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