Awards & Winners

Oscar Hijuelos

Date of Birth 24-August-1951
Place of Birth Morningside Heights
(Manhattan, New York City, New York metropolitan area, West Side)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Oscar Jerome Hijuelos
Profession Novelist, Author
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American-born novelist of Cuban descent. During a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy. For his second novel, adapted for the movie The Mambo Kings, he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Hijuelos died at age 62 in 2013 after collapsing with a heart attack while playing tennis in New York.

Awards by Oscar Hijuelos

Check all the awards nominated and won by Oscar Hijuelos.

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Mr Ives' Christmas

1990


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Fiction The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love