Junot Díaz
Forfatter af Oscar Wao & hans korte og forunderlige liv
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Image credit: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Værker af Junot Díaz
Miss Lora 4 eksemplarer
Ysrael (short story) 3 eksemplarer
Monsteo 1 eksemplar
Lees 1 eksemplar
AS ES COMO PIERDES 1 eksemplar
The Best American Short Stories 2016 1 eksemplar
Krátky neobyčajný život Oscara Waa 1 eksemplar
La Breve y Marvillosa Vida de Óscar Wao 1 eksemplar
The Pura Principle 1 eksemplar
MALLKIMI FUKU 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragyder — 495 eksemplarer
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragyder — 340 eksemplarer
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Bidragyder — 66 eksemplarer
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror special issue (2016) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1968-12-31
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Dominican Republic
- Fødested
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Bopæl
- born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York City, USA
- Uddannelse
- Kean College (Kean University)
Rutgers University (BA ∙ English ∙ 1992)
Cornell University (MFA ∙ 1995) - Erhverv
- novelist
lecturer
short-story writer - Relationer
- Liu, Marjorie (partner)
- Organisationer
- Rutgers University Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Review
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- PEN/Malamud Award (2002)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) - Agent
- Nicole Aragi
Medlemmer
Discussions
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 30
- Also by
- 31
- Medlemmer
- 19,372
- Popularitet
- #1,125
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 706
- ISBN
- 188
- Sprog
- 19
- Udvalgt
- 56