Junot Díaz

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born

December 31, 1968 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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 f...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 67,571 ratings · 10,972 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.81 avg rating — 53,668 ratings — published 2001 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Beacon Best of 2001 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ysrael by Junot Díaz, Jonathan Davis (Narrator) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Wildwood 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Nilda. El sol, la luna, las estrellas. Otravida, otravez. 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor), Charles Baxter (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Hudson Book of Fiction: 30 Stories Worth Reading by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Polish Joke and Other Plays by David Ives, Richard Philcox (Translator), Jean-Paul Sartre (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas by Thomas Colchie (Editor / Translator), Junot Díaz (Contributor), Jorge Volpi (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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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

100 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

77 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

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