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Date of Birth
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31-December-1968
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Place of Birth
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Santo Domingo
(Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional, Hispaniola)
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Nationality
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Dominican Republic, United States of America
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Also know as
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Junot Diaz
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Profession
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Writer, Professor, Novelist, Editor
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Junot DÃaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to DÃaz'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.
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