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Author Junot DiazJunot Dêaz was born in the Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968. Dêaz immigrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist.

He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Dêaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Junot Dêaz Book List and Awards
His website: www.junotdiaz.com
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This is How You Lose Her
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This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

Junot Díaz Bibliography


Novels

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - 2007

Short Story Collections

  • Drown - 1996
  • This Is How You Lose Her - 2012

Junot Díaz Awards

  • 2002 PEN/Malamud Award
  • 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2007 Salon Book Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2007 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) finalist for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2008 Fellow of the American Academy Rome Prize
  • 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2008 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Fiction) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • 2012 MacArthur Fellowship
  • 2012 National Book Award, finalist, This is How You Lose Her
  • 2012 New York Times 100 Notable Books, This is How You Lose Her
  • 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards, Best Fiction, finalist, This is How You Lose Her
  • 2012 Story Prize, finalist
  • 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, winner, "Miss Lora" from This is How You Lose Her
  • 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction finalist (Fiction) for This is How You Lose Her
  • 2013 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters), Brown University
  • 2013 Norman Mailer Prize (Distinguished Writing)

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