Junot Díaz
Autor von Das kurze wundersame Leben des Oscar Wao
Über den Autor
Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous mehr anzeigen Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Miss Lora 4 Exemplare
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La Breve y Marvillosa Vida de Óscar Wao 1 Exemplar
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Mitwirkender — 504 Exemplare
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Mitwirkender — 345 Exemplare
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 152 Exemplare
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Mitwirkender — 138 Exemplare
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Mitwirkender — 73 Exemplare
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare
Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror special issue (2016) — Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1968-12-31
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Dominican Republic
- Geburtsort
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Wohnorte
- born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York City, USA
- Ausbildung
- Kean College (Kean University)
Rutgers University (BA ∙ English ∙ 1992)
Cornell University (MFA ∙ 1995) - Berufe
- novelist
lecturer
short-story writer - Beziehungen
- Liu, Marjorie (partner)
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- Rutgers University Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Review
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- PEN/Malamud Award (2002)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) - Agent
- Nicole Aragi
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Secondly the novel’s structure impeded my enjoyment. This is a personal preference to be sure, but in general I prefer not to hop around between characters and time periods back and forth, forth and back, in lengthy sections. In some novels it works great but generally I like a more time linear construction.… (mehr)