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Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer

April 8, 2008 by Veronica Villafañe

39 yr-old Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”

The novel, which also won the National Book Critics Award earlier this year, revolves about Oscar, an obese comics fan and his dysfunctional Dominican family.

“I am in disbelief,” Junot told the Daily News yesterday. This is his first novel. He has also published a story collection, “Drown.” His work has also appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.

Until Monday, Oscar Hijuelos was the only U.S. Latino writer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize in literature, for “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” published in 1989.

Filed Under: People

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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