Junot Diaz Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Junot Diaz has won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

The citation:

For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Awarded to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books).

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal (The New Press).

For more information, please follow this link: The Pulitzer Prize.

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