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Junot Díaz

Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Includes the names: Juno Diaz, Junoz Diaz, Junot Diag, Junot Diaz, Junot Dfaz, Junot Diáz, Junot Diáz, Junot Da-Az, Junot Díaz, Junot Díaz ... (see complete list), Junot D&�acute;�z, Junot Díaz, Junot Díaz, Díaz Junot, Junot Daz Junot Diaz, ジュノディアス, ジュノ・ディアス, and Obejas Junot Diaz, Achy (Translated by)

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Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao… (more)

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Works by Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 12,537 copies, 471 reviews

This Is How You Lose Her 2,749 copies, 119 reviews

Drown 2,471 copies, 45 reviews

Islandborn 523 copies, 49 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2016 (Editor) 239 copies, 6 reviews

Beacon Best of 2001 (Beacon Anthology) (Editor) 27 copies

Global Dystopias (Boston Review / Forum) (Editor) 27 copies, 1 review

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Includes Story Collection Drown)… 22 copies, 3 reviews

The Cheater's Guide to Love 20 copies

How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) 7 copies, 1 review

Apocalypse: What Disasters Reveal 7 copies

Miss Lora 4 copies

Ysrael (short story) 3 copies

Nilda ; El sol, la luna, las estrellas ; Otravida, otravez 2 copies

Fiesta, 1980 (in The Best American Short Stories 1997 - KENISON) 1 copy

MALLKIMI FUKU 1 copy

Nilda (in The Best American Short Stories 2000 - KENISON) 1 copy

Aurora (in The New Granta Book of the American Short Story - FORD) 1 copy

Slice Magazine A room full of Voices Fall/Winter 2007 1 copy

Boğul 1 copy

MARAVILLOSA VIDA BREVE DE OSCAR WAO, LA 1 copy

The Pura Principle 1 copy

AS� ES COMO PIERDES 1 copy

La Breve y Marvillosa Vida de Óscar Wao 1 copy

Krátky neobyčajný život Oscara Waa 1 copy

Lees 1 copy

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The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (Contributor) 1,079 copies, 2 reviews

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American… (Contributor) 479 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1999 (Contributor) 435 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2000 (Contributor) 376 copies, 2 reviews

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Contributor) 367 copies, 15 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Contributor) 345 copies, 3 reviews

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short… (Contributor) 328 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 2013 (Contributor) 260 copies, 5 reviews

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (Contributor) 250 copies, 3 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1996 (Contributor) 236 copies

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Contributor) 198 copies, 1 review

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Contributor) 194 copies, 7 reviews

Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (Contributor) 167 copies, 5 reviews

New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (Contributor, some editions) 143 copies, 5 reviews

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (Contributor) 131 copies, 3 reviews

Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic… (Contributor) 122 copies, 4 reviews

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (Contributor) 114 copies, 1 review

Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature (Contributor) 103 copies, 4 reviews

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review

Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and… (Contributor) 68 copies, 15 reviews

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading… (Contributor) 65 copies

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Contributor) 58 copies

The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (Contributor) 52 copies

Best African American Fiction (2009) (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review

Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Contributor) 34 copies

Nightmare Magazine, October 2016 - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror… (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review

Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today (Contributor) 16 copies

Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose (Contributor) 8 copies

The New Yorker Science Fiction Issue 2012, June 4 & 11 (Contributor) 2 copies

新潮クレスト・ブックス創刊15周年… (インタビュー) 1 copy

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