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junot diaz

February 16 • 8pm
Tickets: $5 - $20 / purchase tickets
The Futch Ballroom in the University Center / see a map
Parking: There is ample parking at the University Center

Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, confirming him as a major American author. The book received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and was named a best book of 2007 by publications from The Washington Post to Entertainment Weekly. Attempting to capture the book’s wide-ranging pleasures, The New York Times described it as “Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star Trek meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West.”

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Diaz’s debut short story collection, Drown, earned rave reviews, while his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories.

Presented in conjunction with the Florida State University Creative Writing Program.

 

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