In darkness we meet: a conversation with Junot Diaz.
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma |
| Publication | World Literature Today |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0196-3570 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2008-03-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Armando Celayo |
| Person | n/a | Junot Diaz |
| Author | n/a | David Shook |
The stories in Drown (1996), Junot Diaz's first collection, were called "powerful and convincing," "sentimental, yet cynical," and "mesmerizingly honest." Two of the stories--"Ysrael" and "Fiesta, 1980"--were anthologized in the 1996 and 1997 editions of The Best American Short Stories. Since then, Diaz has been selected twice more for the BASS anthology (1999 and 2000), received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction in 2002, and was recently awarded the Rome Prize. Diaz earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and an MFA from Cornell University. He has taught at...
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