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Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer.
* He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1968.
* He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was six years old.
* He is the author of three books: Drown (1996), This Is How You Lose Her (2012), and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007).
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
* Díaz has also received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
* He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* He is a vocal advocate for diversity in the literary world.
* His work has been praised for its humor, its insights into the immigrant experience, and its complex and nuanced portrayal of race and gender.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
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