Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American author known for his critically acclaimed works, including Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This Is How You Lose Her.
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz's writing often explores themes of immigration, identity, and Dominican culture.
He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship.
Díaz is a graduate of Rutgers College and currently serves as the fiction editor at Boston Review and a professor of writing at MIT, contributing significantly to contemporary American literature.
