Junot Diaz

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Dominican-American novelist and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow; 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Junot Diaz: This Is How You Lose Her

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Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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