Junot Díaz

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born

in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

December 31, 1968

gender

male

website

http://www.junotdiaz.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer. He moved to the USA with his parents at age six, settling in New Jersey. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He is the first Dominican-born man to become a major author in the United States.

Díaz is creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Díaz has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowme...more

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Junot Díaz's Books

Average rating: 3.83 · 123,146 ratings · 15,024 reviews · 12 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 92,089 ratings — published 2001 — 78 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This is How You Lose Her 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 18,664 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drown 4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 11,322 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beacon Best of 2001 3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ysrael by Junot Díaz, Jonathan Davis (Narrator) 4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildwood 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apocalypse 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nilda. El sol, la luna, las estrellas. Otravida, otravez. 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Lora 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pura Principle 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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September 2012, Junot Díaz
"The geek hero who gave us the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao returns with a new collection of linked stories, This Is How You Lose Her." ...More

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Quotes by Junot Díaz

“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: changes

226 people liked it

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: escape, introspection

178 people liked it

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: failure, success

159 people liked it

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