Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013)
Autor(a) de The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
About the Author
Óscar Jerome Hijuelos was born in Manhattan, New York on August 24, 1951 to Cuban immigrant parents. He received a bachelor's degree and a master of fine arts degree from City College. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983 and won the Rome Prize of the American mostrar mais Academy of Arts and Letters. His other works include The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Mr. Ives' Christmas, Empress of the Splendid Season, A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World was Good), Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Another Spaniard in the Works, and Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise. His novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was made into a 1992 movie starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas. He also wrote a young adult novel entitled Dark Dude and a memoir entitled Thoughts Without Cigarettes. In 2000, he received the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature. He died after collapsing with a heart attack while playing tennis on October 12, 2013 at age 62. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels (Loa #362): Our House in the Last World / The Mambo Kings Play Songs of… (2022) 23 exemplares
Escape to Miami 1 exemplar
1992 1 exemplar
Associated Works
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 377 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life (2007) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Hijuelos, Oscar Jerome
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-08-24
- Data de falecimento
- 2013-10-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- City College of New York (B.A.|1975)
City University of New York (M.A.|Creative Writing|1976) - Ocupações
- novelist
professor - Relações
- Carlson, Lori Marie (wife)
- Organizações
- PEN International Writers' Organization
Duke University
Hofstra University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1985)
Pulitzer Prize (Fiction, 1990)
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award (1983)
Rome Prize (1985)
Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature (2000)
Luis Leal Award (2003)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 13
- Membros
- 4,438
- Popularidade
- #5,643
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 163
- ISBN
- 181
- Línguas
- 11
- Marcado como favorito
- 6