JunotDíaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2008. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.

 

Awards and nominations

• PEN/Malamud Award 2002

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2007

• National Book Critics Circle Award for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2007

• Fellow of the American Academy Rome Prize 2008

• MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius grant") 2012

• National Book Award Finalist for This is How You Lose Her 2012