Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz has regularly contributed both fiction and nonfiction to The New Yorker since 1995 and was named one of the magazine’s “20 Under 40” in 1999. His first story collection, “ Drown ,” garnered critical praise, and his second collection, “ This Is How You Lose Her ,” was a National Book Award finalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel “ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ” and has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award; the John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize; the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction; and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, among others. He has been granted numerous fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Junot Díaz’s story about Oscar de León, a Dominican boy nicknamed Oscar Wao for his resemblance to Oscar Wilde, told by his college roommate.
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Teo is home from school, the narrator's mother tells him, but the narrator keeps on watching Spanish TV. Only when his mother goes to bed, does he …