Pulitzer winner stays true to Jersey roots - Junot Diaz

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Posted on: April 8th, 2008
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“Junot Diaz, whose novel about a Dominican misfit growing up in Jersey won the Pulitzer Prize Monday, heard the news on a visit to his mom’s place in Ridgefield Park.

Diaz was shocked. His immigrant mother burst into tears.

“Even she knows about the Pulitzer,” Diaz, 39, said Monday.”*

*From: http://www.nj.com
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