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Junot Díaz is a male writer, novelist, and university teacher who holds citizenship in the United States and the Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo on December 31, 1968, he was educated at Cornell University and Rutgers University. He writes in English and speaks both Spanish and English. His professional affiliations include employment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers University Press.
Díaz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received several awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. His works include *Islandborn*, *asi es como la pierdes*, *This Is How You Lose Her*, *Drown*, and *Schiffe aus Feuer*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Islandborn
- asi es como la pierdes
- This Is How You Lose Her
- Drown
- Schiffe aus Feuer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Habla Men — Self2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 88
- Total plays
- 1,747
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Junot+D%C3%ADaz">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI
· 2020 · cited 8,587x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,261x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
· 2015 · cited 3,782x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”
- “Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we’re interpreting the morality of immigrants is Chaucer.””
- “We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is how this shit resides in us, how this just lives in us, man, even if we’re the good guy – it should give a motherfucker pause.”
- “If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-12-31 ) December 31, 1968 (age 57) , Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
- Occupation
- Novelist professor writer
- Education
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick ( BA ) Cornell University ( MFA )
- Literary movement
- Afro-Surrealism
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Notable awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award (2007), Pulitzer Prize (2008), MacArthur Fellowship (2012) Inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Díaz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santo Domingo
- Occupation
- novelist
- Educated at
- Rutgers University
- Employer
- Rutgers University Press
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.junotdiaz.com
- Image
- Junot Díaz (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Junot Díaz
- date of birth
- 1968-12-31
- name in native language
- Junot Díaz
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- writing language
- English language
- social media followers
- 9420
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Encyclopedic overview
Junot Díaz (/ˈdʒuːnoʊ/ JOO-noh; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Junot Díaz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.