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Junot Díaz


Born
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
December 31, 1968

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences
David Foster Wallace, Toni Morrison, Samuel R. Delany, Sandra Cisneros ...more


Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 404,539 ratings · 33,581 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors
The Brief Wondrous Life of ...
3.89 avg rating — 260,264 ratings — published 2007 — 171 editions
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This Is How You Lose Her
3.75 avg rating — 96,968 ratings — published 2010 — 87 editions
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Drown
4.02 avg rating — 35,582 ratings — published 1995 — 75 editions
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Islandborn
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4.50 avg rating — 4,306 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions
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The Best American Short Sto...
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The Cheater's Guide to Love
3.84 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Apocalypse: What Disasters ...
4.07 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Global Dystopias
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Fiesta, 1980
3.37 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Nilda. El sol, la luna, las...
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Quotes by Junot Díaz  (?)
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“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her
tags: breaking-up
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“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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“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
tags: changes
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November Fantasy -- This poll decides which two books will go into the run off poll for FANTASY BOTM for November 2016.

 
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