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Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer

Posted April 8th, 2008
by Lisa Pierce

Earlier this week, Junot Diaz became the second U.S. Latino to win a Pulitzer prize for fiction for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The novel had already earned the 2007 National Books Critics Circle Award.
Diaz, 39, was born in the Dominican Republican, and arrived in the U.S. in 1974. He [...]

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