Junot Díaz
Autore di La breve favolosa vita di Oscar Wao
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Opere di Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [Includes Story Collection: Drown] (2007) 25 copie, 3 recensioni
Miss Lora 4 copie
Ysrael (short story) 3 copie
Lees 2 copie
Monsteo 1 copia
AS ES COMO PIERDES 1 copia
The Pura Principle 1 copia
MALLKIMI FUKU 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Collaboratore — 1,141 copie, 3 recensioni
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Collaboratore — 521 copie, 4 recensioni
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Collaboratore — 352 copie, 6 recensioni
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 161 copie, 5 recensioni
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Collaboratore — 143 copie, 4 recensioni
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Collaboratore — 126 copie, 1 recensione
Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature (2016) — Collaboratore — 109 copie, 4 recensioni
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Collaboratore — 69 copie, 15 recensioni
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017) — Collaboratore — 42 copie, 1 recensione
Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror special issue (2016) — Collaboratore — 25 copie, 1 recensione
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968-12-31
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Dominican Republic
- Luogo di nascita
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Luogo di residenza
- born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, New York City, USA
- Istruzione
- Kean College (Kean University)
Rutgers University (BA ∙ English ∙ 1992)
Cornell University (MFA ∙ 1995) - Attività lavorative
- novelist
lecturer
short-story writer - Relazioni
- Liu, Marjorie (partner)
- Organizzazioni
- Rutgers University Press
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Review
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- PEN/Malamud Award (2002)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008)
MacArthur Fellowship (2012) - Agente
- Nicole Aragi
Utenti
Discussioni
*** February - What are you reading? in Club Read 2013 (Aprile 2013)
Recensioni
Liste
Overdue Podcast (2)
100 New Classics (1)
USA Road Trip (1)
Magic Realism (1)
Five star books (1)
Unread books (1)
My TBR (1)
Latin America (1)
Florida (1)
First Novels (1)
Favourite Books (1)
BitLife (1)
Teens (1)
1960s (1)
Latin America (1)
Urban Fiction (1)
AP Lit (1)
Reading 2008 (1)
Reading Globally (1)
2000s decade (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 31
- Utenti
- 19,854
- Popolarità
- #1,089
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 722
- ISBN
- 193
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 55