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Junot Díaz (; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.
Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
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GenderMale
Birthday1968-12-31 (55 years old)
Birth PlaceSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic
CitizenshipsDominican Republic, United States of America
AwardsGreat Immigrants, Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, Américas Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Rome Prize, MacArthur Fellows Program, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award
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