Junot Diaz
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(Interview by MPR's Talking Volumes)
Short bio ...*
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Junot Díaz lives in New York City and is a professor of creative writing at MIT. His first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times calling it "a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Junot Díaz lives in New York City and is a professor of creative writing at MIT. His first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times calling it "a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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