Junot Diaz wins prize for "Miss Lora"

[Beverly]

An unnerving story of grief and high-school sex has won the world's most valuable short story prize.

Junot Diaz won the £30,000 (about US$45,696) Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for for "Miss Lora," which Andrew O'Hagan, novelist and one of the judges, said "has the feel of a contemporary classic" and "echoes in the heart as well as the mind."

This an informative link to why the judges chose this story, a quote from Diaz why he wrote this story, and a video interview talking to this story.
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/news-blog...

[Wilhelmina]

Wow! Diaz is on a roll!

[Phyllis | Mocha Drop]

Thanks for sharing! Will pass along to my local club b/c we're reading This Is How You Lose Her in May.

[Flaxan]

Way to go !!!

[Nakia]

Thanks for the info!

[George]

well, he was on the Colbert Report the other day as well.

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/26/must_...