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C.U. Creative Writing Graduate Junot Diaz MFA ’95 Wins Pulitzer

April 7, 2008 - 11:00pm
By Jasmine Marcus

Junot Diaz MFA ’95 won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for distinguished fiction by an American author for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which was published by Riverhead Books in 2007.

Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic, and raised there and in New Jersey, received his Master of Fine Arts from Cornell after graduating from Rutgers. He was then on the faculty for a year teaching Creative Writing and freshman writing seminars at Cornell.

According to the book’s jacket, Oscar Wao is about “a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd.”

The book was greatly anticipated since it was published 10 years after Diaz’s last book, a collection of short stories called Drown.