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Junot Díaz


Born
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
December 31, 1968

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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.

He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 427,243 ratings · 35,711 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors
The Brief Wondrous Life of ...
3.89 avg rating — 276,648 ratings — published 2007 — 176 editions
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This Is How You Lose Her
3.74 avg rating — 99,828 ratings — published 2010 — 30 editions
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Drown
4.01 avg rating — 37,136 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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Islandborn
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4.46 avg rating — 4,701 ratings — published 2018 — 19 editions
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The Cheater's Guide to Love
3.68 avg rating — 1,769 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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The Best American Short Sto...
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Apocalypse: What Disasters ...
4.06 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2011
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Fiesta, 1980
3.52 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Global Dystopias
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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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