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An interview with pulitzer prizewinning author junot diaz. Twitter facebook email richard oppel, pulitzer board cochair left, presents the 2008 pulitzer prize in fiction to junot diaz. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao paperback september 2, 2008. Last november, meghan orourke interviewed diaz about. Home the brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz. Author junot diaz won a pulitzer prize this year for his first novel, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao by junot diaz full. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao, like drown, is a work of startling originality and distinction, narrated with an irresistible, manic energy. But his understanding of women isas diaz told me in an interview by. Junot diazs first book, drown 1996, detailed the lives of children in the dominican republic and, later, of young men. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao, by junot diaz. Junot diaz talks dominican identity, immigration and the.
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