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Junot Díaz (born 31 December 1968) is a Dominican-American writer and professor at MIT. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008.
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Junot Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He's best known for having penned The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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