Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

American writer of Dominican Republic descent
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Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 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 Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.

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Junot Diaz was born on Tuesday, 31 December 1968 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is best known as a writer. Diaz's country of citizenship (nationality) is Dominican. He has black eyes and bald hair (color). Junot Diaz is 56 years old and his zodiac star sign is Capricorn.

You can find people similar to Junot Diaz by visiting our lists American Spanish-language writers and MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty.

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Junot Diaz is known for his role in the documentary Ruben Blades Is Not My Name (2018) as stars.

He is also known for his role in the documentary The Pulitzer at 100 (2016) as Self - Novelist.

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