10-02-2012, 05:30 PM | #1 |
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Junot Diaz receives MacArthur Fellowship
"a fiction writer using vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants must straddle (Junot Diaz); "
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/01/487...#storylink=cpy Just heard an interview with him on NPR this week. http://www.npr.org/2012/09/13/160762...esonant-voices amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...rds=Junot+Diaz also Dinaw Mengestu - http://www.macfound.org/fellows/870/ Last edited by kennyc; 10-02-2012 at 05:43 PM. |
10-02-2012, 05:45 PM | #2 |
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Thanks for posting this. I had put The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao on my required reading list for next year.
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10-02-2012, 05:51 PM | #3 |
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I've just added This is how you lose her to my wish list after hearing the interview and before this announcement.
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10-02-2012, 10:11 PM | #4 |
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I don't know Mr. Diaz personally, but I can't help but be proud. Friends of mine, a few of them writers with Mr. Diaz's background, have supported him for a decade.
Next time people tell you that New Jersey's the breeding ground of philistines and barbarians, or that Latino culture in America offers nothing of lasting value, I hope you'll remember this man and quietly correct those who are not beyond correcting. |
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