Junot Diaz
Office of Multicultural Affairs
Arturo Schomburg Afro-Latino Speaker Series
presents
JUNOT DIAZ
Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” and “Drown”
Nancy Allen Professor of Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, March 20th
4:30 p.m. Benjamin Mays Center
followed by the
CREOLE TABLE
6:00 p.m. Multicultural Center
by rsvp only
co-sponsored by the
College Lectures Committee, Dean of Students, Office of the Multifaith Chaplaincy, Program in African American Studies, Spanish, Department of English, Writing Workshop
This series highlights contemporary Afro-Latino/a scholars and artists who focus on topics including Afro-Latino/a identity, politics, culture, literature and history. Junot Diaz marks the second of three lectures in this series for this academic year. Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the author of “Drown” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” The latter 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 fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O’Henry Prize Stories 2009.
He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
