Junot Diaz Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Junot Diaz was born on December 31, 1968 in Villa Juana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a writer, known for Washington Heights (2002), Harvest of Empire (2012) and Habla Men (2014).
Net Worth
$500,000
Date Of Birth
December 31, 1968
Place Of Birth
Villa Juana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Profession
Writer
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Quote
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[re favorite episode of The Twilight Zone (1959)] I grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship, and even more immediately, with an older brother who was everyone's favorite, who could get away with almost anything, and so the episode that rocked me was "It's a Good Life" [based on the Jerome Bixby short story about a 3-year-old boy who's really a monster controlling his small town]. Bixby was a genius, and he dramatized the "banality of evil" with such sinister effortlessness.
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I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
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We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.
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We're accelerated. We don't have much time anymore for what we call spaces of deliberation. Spaces where we can sit around and think at a human pace about ourselves and our lives, and even things like what is the future. A human rhythm where you can think about the past, the present and the future at the same time. I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
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I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.
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Fact
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He was nominated for the 2015 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services to Arts and Literature.
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He was nominated for the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters Category.
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He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his fictional novel entitled "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" in April 2008.
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He graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1992 with a degree in English Literature.
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He earned his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University in 1995.
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He splits his time between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.
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He is a writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambrige, Massachusetts.
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He was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.".
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He graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in Old Bridge, New Jersey in 1987.
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His novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' was named as Novel of the Year by TIME in 2007. The film option has since been bought by Miramax.
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Short story, Otra Vida, Ortra Vez, appeared in The New Yorker Magazine's "The Future of American Fiction" issue (June 21 & 28, 1999).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Washington Heights
2002
additional dialogue
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nothing Like the Holidays
2008
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2015
TV Series
Himself
Habla Men
2014
TV Movie documentary
Himself
First Tuesday Book Club
2013
TV Series
Himself - Guest Panellist
Página 2
2013
TV Series
Himself
The Colbert Report
2008-2013
TV Series
Himself - Guest / Himself
Moyers & Company
2012
TV Series
Himself
CBS This Morning
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Harvest of Empire
2012
Documentary
Himself (Pulitzer Prize winning writer)
Silenci?
2008
TV Series
Himself
Tavis Smiley
2007
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Washington Heights (2002) as Writer
Harvest of Empire (2012) as Himself (Pulitzer Prize winning writer)
