Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which 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), Pushcart Prize XXII, and The O’Henry Prize Stories 2009.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Murray Function Room, Yawkey Center, Boston College
Event URL: http://www.bc.edu/offices/lowellhs/
Of Interest to Particular Audience:
Faculty, Graduate Students, Public, Undergraduate Students
Categorized as:Lectures & Readings
Sponsored by: Lowell Humanities Lecture Series and Fiction Days
Contact:Carlo Rotella
Contact’s Phone:
617-552-3191
Contact’s Email:
carlo.rotella@bc.edu
Admission fee: Free
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