BU Creative Writing Presents: Junot Diaz (10.26.15) | Latin American Studies

BU Creative Writing Presents: Junot Diaz (10.26.15)

Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize Winner
National Book Award Finalist

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Monday, October 26, 2015 at 7 PM
Law Auditorium, Boston University
765 Commonwealth Avenue

Please join us for a reading by Junot Diaz. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Junot Diaz is the author of Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and This is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of the a Mac Aurthur Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship and PEN/O, Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers University, Diaz is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This event is free and open to the public.

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