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Junot Díaz is a male writer, novelist, and university teacher born in Santo Domingo in 1968. He holds citizenship in the United States and the Dominican Republic. Díaz writes in English and Spanish. He is educated at Cornell University and Rutgers University. His professional affiliations include Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University Press. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His notable works include *Drown*, *This Is How You Lose Her*, *asi es como la pierdes*, *Islandborn*, and *Schiffe aus Feuer*. Díaz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. His work is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the Macarthur Fellows collection.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Islandborn
- asi es como la pierdes
- This Is How You Lose Her
- Drown
- Schiffe aus Feuer
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Film & TV
Known for
- Habla Men — Self2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-12-31 ) December 31, 1968 (age 57) , Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
- Occupation
- Novelist professor writer
- Education
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick ( BA ) Cornell University ( MFA )
- Literary movement
- Afro-Surrealism
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Notable awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award (2007), Pulitzer Prize (2008), MacArthur Fellowship (2012) Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Díaz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santo Domingo
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Rutgers University
- Employer
- Rutgers University Press
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.junotdiaz.com
- Image
- Junot Díaz (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Junot Díaz
- date of birth
- 1968-12-31
- name in native language
- Junot Díaz
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- writing language
- English language
- social media followers
- 9420
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Encyclopedic overview
Junot Díaz (/ˈdʒuːnoʊ/ JOO-noh; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Junot Díaz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.