Junot Díaz
Autor(a) de The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Junot Díaz
Miss Lora 4 exemplares
Ysrael (short story) 3 exemplares
Monsteo 1 exemplar
Lees 1 exemplar
La Breve y Marvillosa Vida de Óscar Wao 1 exemplar
Krátky neobyčajný život Oscara Waa 1 exemplar
AS ES COMO PIERDES 1 exemplar
The Pura Principle 1 exemplar
MALLKIMI FUKU 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 345 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 152 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror special issue (2016) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today (2008) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1968-12-31
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Dominican Republic
- Local de nascimento
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Locais de residência
- born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York City, USA
- Educação
- Kean College (Kean University)
Rutgers University (BA ∙ English ∙ 1992)
Cornell University (MFA ∙ 1995) - Ocupações
- novelist
lecturer
short-story writer - Relações
- Liu, Marjorie (partner)
- Organizações
- Rutgers University Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Review
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- PEN/Malamud Award (2002)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) - Agente
- Nicole Aragi
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 31
- Membros
- 19,564
- Popularidade
- #1,116
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 712
- ISBN
- 191
- Línguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 56
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