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04-08-2008, 05:40 PM
Dominican-born author Junot Diaz has won yet another prize for his magnificent novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Yesterday it was announced that Diaz had won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The award is accompanied by a US$10,000 prize. Diaz has said that it took him 11 years to write the book. The writer, who moved to the US when he was just six years old, told the NY Times "in some ways I think that this book waited for me to become a better person before it wrote itself".
In March, Diaz was awarded the US National Book Critic Circle Award for Fiction. "Oscar Wao" tells the tragic story of a young Dominican-American man's search for love. The story switches back and forth between urban slang, Dominicanisms and references to Dominican historical events, while recounting Oscar Wao's life story. According to the NY Daily News, up till Monday's announcement, the only US Latino writer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize for literature was Oscar Hijuelos, for "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," published in 1989. With this prize, Diaz now joins the ranks of Pulitzer-winning authors like Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.
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In March, Diaz was awarded the US National Book Critic Circle Award for Fiction. "Oscar Wao" tells the tragic story of a young Dominican-American man's search for love. The story switches back and forth between urban slang, Dominicanisms and references to Dominican historical events, while recounting Oscar Wao's life story. According to the NY Daily News, up till Monday's announcement, the only US Latino writer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize for literature was Oscar Hijuelos, for "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," published in 1989. With this prize, Diaz now joins the ranks of Pulitzer-winning authors like Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)