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Junot DĂ­az, 2008
Junot DĂ­az, 2008

Junot DĂ­az

Dominican-born American writer
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Junot DĂ­az is a Dominican-born American author whose work centers on the experience of immigrants in their home countries and in the United States. Known for his swaggering prose, he incorporates pop culture references, Dominican-American slang, and Spanish words and phrases into the English text of his works. His fiction also addresses such topics as family, identity, and masculinity. In 2008 DĂ­az won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao....

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