Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 19
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 11,371x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,035x
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI
· 2020 · cited 7,859x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,391x
- Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
· 2015 · cited 3,656x
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 31 December 1968
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Díaz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominican Republic
- Place of birth
- Santo Domingo
- Occupation
- novelist
- Employer
- Rutgers University Press
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.junotdiaz.com
- Image
- Junot Díaz (cropped).jpg
Article
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.
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