Junot Díaz snatches Pulitzer Prize, grumbles he’s only 2nd Latino to do so

Memo to Pulitzer: It was about time, hombre!

Fresh off winning the top novelist prize in America, Junot Díaz says the literary establishment “should be embarrassed” he’s only the second Latino writer to snatch it.

“Two Latinos in a hundred years? Mmmh. I don’t think the problem is with us as writers. It seems like the problem is with them as judges,” says the Dominican-born, N.J.-raised author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.””*

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