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Junot Díaz
Díaz in 2012
Díaz in 2012
Born(1968-12-31)December 31, 1968(age 55)
Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • professor
  • writer
Education
Period1995–present
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship(1999)
National Book Critics Circle Award(2007)
Pulitzer Prize(2008)
MacArthur Fellowship(2012) Inducted intoAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters(2017)
Website
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Junot Díaz(/ˈdʒuːnoʊ/;born December 31, 1968) is aDominican-American[1]writer, creative writing professor atMassachusetts Institute of Technology,and a former fiction editor atBoston 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.[2]Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience.[3]

Born inSanto Domingo,Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family toNew Jerseywhen he was six years old. He earned aBachelor of Artsdegree fromRutgers University,and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining hisMFAfromCornell University,Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collectionDrown.

Diaz received the 2008Pulitzer Prize for Fictionfor his novelThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,and received aMacArthur Fellowship"Genius Grant" in 2012.[4]

Early life[edit]

Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968, to Rafael and Virtudes Díaz.[5][6]He was the third child among seven siblings. Throughout most of his early childhood, he lived with his mother and grandparents while his father worked in the United States. In December 1974 he migrated toParlin, New Jersey,where he was re-united with his father. There he lived less than a mile from what he has described as "one of the largest landfills in New Jersey".[7]

Díaz attended Madison Park Elementary[8]and was a voracious reader, often walking four miles in order to borrow books from his public library. At this time Díaz became fascinated withapocalyptic films and books,especially the work ofJohn Christopher,the originalPlanet of the Apesfilms, and theBBCmini-seriesEdge of Darkness.Growing up Diaz struggled greatly with learning the English language. He comments that it "was a miserable experience" for him, especially since it seemed that all of his other siblings "acquired the language in a matter of months; in some ways it felt overnight". As his school took notice Diaz's family was contacted and he soon was placed in special education to provide him with more resources and opportunities to learn the language.[9]

Díaz graduated fromCedar Ridge High Schoolin 1987 (now calledOld Bridge High School) inOld Bridge Township, New Jersey,[10]though he would not begin to write formally until years later.[11]

Career[edit]

Díaz attendedKean CollegeinUnion,New Jersey, for one year before transferring and ultimately completing hisBAatRutgers University-New Brunswickin 1992, majoring in English; there he was involved inDemarest Hall,a creative-writing, living-learning, residence hall, and in various student organizations. He was exposed to the authors who would motivate him to become a writer:Toni MorrisonandSandra Cisneros.He worked his way through college by delivering pool tables, washing dishes, pumping gas, and working at Raritan River Steel. During an interview conducted in 2010, Díaz reflected on his experience growing up in America and working his way through college:

I can safely say I've seen the US from the bottom up... I may be a success story as an individual. But if you adjust the knob and just take it back one setting to the family unit, I would say my family tells a much more complicated story. It tells the story of two kids in prison. It tells the story of enormous poverty, of tremendous difficulty.[citation needed]

A pervasive theme in hisshort storycollectionDrown(1996) is the absence of a father, which reflects Diaz's strained relationship with his own father, with whom he no longer keeps in contact. When Diaz once published an article in a Dominican newspaper condemning the country's treatment of Haitians, his father wrote a letter to the editor saying that the writer of the article should "go back home to Haiti".[12]

After graduating from Rutgers, Díaz worked atRutgers University Pressas an editorial assistant. At this time he also first created the quasi-autobiographical character ofYuniorin a story Díaz used as part of his application for his MFA program in the early 1990s. The character would become important to much of his later work includingDrownandThis Is How You Lose Her(2012).[13]Yunior would become central to much of Diaz's work, Diaz later explaining how "My idea, ever sinceDrown,was to write six or seven books about him that would form one big novel ".[13]Díaz earned hisMFAfromCornell Universityin 1995, where he wrote most of his first collection of short stories.

Díaz teaches creative writing at theMassachusetts Institute of Technologyas the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing[14]and was the fiction editor forBoston Review.[15]He is active in the Dominican American community and is a founding member of theVoices of Our Nation Arts Foundation,which focuses on writers of color. He was a Millet Writing Fellow atWesleyan University,in 2009, and participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.[16]

Personal life[edit]

Díaz lives in adomestic partnershipwith paranormal romance writerMarjorie Liu.[17]

Work[edit]

1994–2004: Early work andDrown[edit]

Díaz's short fiction has appeared inThe New Yorkermagazine, which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century.[18]He has been published inStory,The Paris Review,Enkare Reviewand in the anthologiesThe Best American Short Storiesfive times (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2013),The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories(2009), andAfrican Voices.He is best known for his two major works: the short story collectionDrown(1996) and the novelThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao(2007). Both were published to critical acclaim and he won the 2008Pulitzer Prize for Fictionfor the latter. Diaz himself has described his writing style as "a disobedient child of New Jersey and the Dominican Republic if that can be possibly imagined with way too much education".[19]

Díaz has received a [Eugene McDermott] Award, a fellowship from theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,aLila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award,the 2002PEN/Malamud Award,the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from theNational Endowment for the Arts,a fellowship at theRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Studyat Harvard University and the Rome Prize from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters.He was selected as one of the 39 most important Latin American writers under the age of 39 by the BogotáWorld Book Capitaland theHay Festival.[20]

The stories inDrownfocus on the teenage narrator's impoverished, fatherless youth in the Dominican Republic and his struggle adapting to his new life in New Jersey. Reviews were generally strong but not without complaints.[21]Díaz read twice forPRI'sThis American Life:"Edison, New Jersey"[22]in 1997 and "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)"[23]in 1998. Díaz also published a Spanish translation of'Drown,entitledNegocios.The arrival of his novel (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) in 2007 prompted a noticeable re-appraisal of Díaz's earlier work.Drownbecame widely recognized as an important landmark in contemporary literature—ten years after its initial publication—even by critics who had either entirely ignored the book[24]or had given it poor reviews.[25]

2005–11:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao[edit]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waowas published in September 2007.New York TimescriticMichiko Kakutanicharacterized Díaz's writing in the novel as "a sort of streetwise brand of Spanglish that even the most monolingual reader can easily inhale: lots of flash words and razzle-dazzle talk, lots of body language on the sentences, lots ofDavid Foster Wallace-esque footnotes and asides. And he conjures with seemingly effortless aplomb the two worlds his characters inhabit: theDominican Republic,the ghost-haunted motherland that shapes their nightmares and their dreams; and America (a.k.a. New Jersey), the land of freedom and hope and not-so-shiny possibilities that they've fled to as part of the great Dominicandiaspora.[24]Díaz said about the protagonist of the novel, "Oscar was a composite of all the nerds that I grew up with who didn't have that special reservoir of masculine privilege. Oscar was who I would have been if it had not been for my father or my brother or my own willingness to fight or my own inability to fit into any category easily." He has said that he sees a meaningful and fitting connection between the science fiction and/or epic literary genres and the multi-faceted immigrant experience.[26]

Writing forTime,critic Lev Grossman said that Díaz's novel was "so astoundingly great that in a fall crowded with heavyweights—Richard Russo,Philip Roth—Díaz is a good bet to run away with the field. You could callThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao... the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn't really be fair. It's an immigrant-family sagafor people who don't read immigrant-family sagas. "[27]In September 2007,Miramaxacquired the rights for a film adaptation ofThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.[28]

In addition to the Pulitzer,The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Waowas awarded theJohn Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize,[29]theNational Book Critics Circle Award for Fictionof 2007[30]theAnisfield-Wolf Book Award,the 2008Dayton Literary Peace Prize,[31]the 2008Hurston/Wright Legacy Award,and theMassachusetts Book AwardsFiction Award in 2007.[32]Díaz also won theJames Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his article "He'll Take El Alto", which appeared inGourmet,September 2007.[33]The novel was also selected byTime[34]andNew York Magazine[35]as the best novel of 2007. TheSt. Louis Post-Dispatch,Los Angeles Times,Village Voice,Christian Science Monitor,New Statesman,Washington Post,andPublishers Weeklywere among the 35 publications that placed the novel on their 'Best of 2007' lists. The novel was the subject of a panel at the 2008Modern Language Associationconference in San Francisco.[36]Stanford University dedicated a symposium to Junot Díaz in 2012, with roundtables of leading US Latino/a Studies scholars commenting on his creative writing and activism.[37]

In February 2010, Díaz's contributions toward encouraging fellow writers were recognized when he was awarded theBarnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award,alongsideMaxine Hong Kingstonand poetM.L. Liebler.[38]

2012–present:This Is How You Lose Herand other works[edit]

In September 2012, he released a collection of short stories entitledThis Is How You Lose Her.[39][40][41]The collection was named a finalist for the 2012National Book Awardon October 10, 2012.[42]In his review of the book on online arts and culture journalFrontier Psychiatrist,Editor-In-Chief Keith Meatto wrote, "WhileThis is How You Lose Herwill surely advance Diaz's literary career, it may complicate his love life. For the reader, the collection raises the obvious question of what you would do if your lover cheated on you, and implies two no less challenging questions: How do you find love and how do you make it last? "[43]

One reviewer wrote, "The stories inThis Is How You Lose Her,by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through – "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" – to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care... Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that "love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever".[41]

In 2012, Diaz received a $500,000MacArthur "Genius grant"award.[44][45][46][47]He said "I think I was speechless for two days" and called it "stupendous" and a "mind-blowing honor".[46]

AfterOscar Wao,Diaz began work on a second novel, a science-fiction epic with the working titleMonstro.[48]Diaz had previously attempted to write a science fiction novel twice prior toOscar Wao,with earlier efforts in the genre "Shadow of the Adept,a far-future novel in the vein of Gene Wolfe'sThe Shadow of the Torturer,andDark America,an Akira-inspired post-apocalyptic nightmare "remaining incomplete and unpublished.[49]Part of the appeal of science fiction to Diaz, he explained in an interview withWired,is that science fiction grapples with the idea of power in a manner other genres do not: "I didn't see mainstream, literary, realistic fiction talking about power, talking about dictatorship, talking about the consequences of breeding people, which of course is something that in the Caribbean is never far away."[50]In an interview withNew York Magazineprior to the release ofThis Is How You Lose Her,Diaz revealed that the work-in-progress novel concerns "a 14-year-old 'Dominican York' girl who saves the planet from a full-blown apocalypse".[51]but he also warned that the novel may never be completed: "I'm only at the first part of the novel, so I haven't really gotten down to the eating," he says, "and I've got to eat a couple cities before I think the thing will really get going."[49]As of June 2015, the novel-in-progress appears to be abandoned – in a June 2015 interview forWords on a Wire,when asked about his progress onMonstro,Diaz said "Yeah, I'm not writing that book anymore..."[52]

Diaz's first children's book,Islandborn,was published March 13, 2018. The story follows an Afro-Latina girl named Lola whose journey takes her back to collect memories of her country of origin, Dominican Republic.[53][54]

With regard to his own writing, Diaz has said: "There are two types of writers: those who write for other writers, and those who write for readers,"[55]and that he prefers to keep his readers in mind when writing, as they'll be more likely to gloss over his mistakes and act as willing participants in a story, rather than actively looking to criticize his writing.[55]

A poll of US critics in January 2015 named Díaz'sThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoas "the best novel of the 21st century to date".[56]In February 2017, Diaz was formally inducted into theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters.[57]

Activism and advocacy[edit]

Díaz has been active in a number of community organizations inNew York City,fromPro-Libertad,to the CommunistDominican Workers' Party(Partido de los Trabajadores Dominicanos), and the Unión de Jóvenes Dominicanos ( "Dominican Youth Union" ). He has been critical ofimmigration policy in the United States.[58]With fellow authorEdwidge Danticat,Díaz published an op-ed piece inThe New York Timescondemning the Dominican government's deportation ofHaitians and Haitian Dominicans.[59]

In response to Díaz's criticism, the Consul General of the Dominican Republic in New York called Díaz an "anti-Dominican" and revoked the Order of Merit he had been awarded by the Dominican Republic in 2009.[60][61]

On May 22, 2010, it was announced that Díaz had been selected to sit on the 20-member Pulitzer Prize board of jurors.[62]Díaz described his appointment, and the fact that he is the first of Latin background to be appointed to the panel, as an "extraordinary honor".[63][64]

As of September 2014,he is the honorary chairman of the DREAM Project, a non-profit education involvement program in the Dominican Republic.[65]

Allegations of abusive behavior[edit]

In May 2018, the authorZinzi Clemmonspublicly confronted Díaz, alleging that he had once forcibly cornered and kissed her.[66][67][68]Other women, including the writersCarmen Maria MachadoandMonica Byrne,responded on Twitter with their own accounts of verbal abuse by Díaz.[69][70][71][72][73]The authorAlisa Valdeswrote a blog post alleging "misogynistic abuse" on the part of Díaz some years prior;[68][74]she said that she had been rebuked for attacking a fellow Latino author when she had called attention to Díaz's behavior in the past.[69][75][76]

Literary andfeministcircles were divided between supporters of Díaz and his accusers.[69][77]The issue of how sexual-harassment claims might be handled differently depending on the race or ethnicity of the accused provoked particular controversy.[69]Several weeks before Clemmons made her allegations,[78][79][80]Díaz had published an essay inThe New Yorker,recounting his own experience of being raped at the age of eight, along with its effect on his later life and relationships.[81][82]He addressed the essay to a reader who had once asked him if he had been abused, writing that the childhood abuse he experienced led him to hurt others in later life.[75][83]While the essay was widely praised as honest and courageous, others accused Díaz of trying to defuse allegations about his own behavior.[77][84]

The authorRebecca Walker,along with a group of academics, including educators from Harvard and Stanford universities, protested the media response to the accusations in an open letter toThe Chronicle of Higher Education,saying it amounted to "a full-blown media-harassment campaign."[85][86]While not dismissing the allegations, they cautioned against an "uncritical" and "sensationalist" handling of the issue that they said could reinforce stereotypes of Black people and Latinos as sexual predators.[85][86][87]Linda Martín Alcoff,a professor of philosophy at Hunter College, wrote an essay inThe New York Timesplacing allegations of sexual assault such as those against Díaz within a larger political context, writing of the need "to develop critiques of the conventions of sexual behavior that produce systemic sexual abuse".[69][88]

MIT,where Díaz teaches creative writing, later announced that their investigation had not revealed any evidence of wrongdoing.[89][77][90][91]The editors ofBoston Reviewalso announced that Díaz would stay on at the magazine,[77][92]writing that the allegations lacked "the kind of severity that animated the #MeToo movement".[79][90][93]Both decisions were criticized; the magazine's poetry editors resigned in protest.[77]One of theBoston Revieweditors has since written in detail about their investigation into the allegations regarding Díaz and their decision to retain him as fiction editor.[94]

Following an initial statement where he wrote of taking "responsibility for my past", Díaz later denied having inappropriately kissed Clemmons; he stated that "people had already moved on to the punishment phase" and that he doubted his denial would be believed at first.[95][96][97]The Boston Globelater described the case as a "turning point" in public response to theMe Too movement,largely because Díaz faced less institutional backlash than other prominent male figures who had been accused of sexual misconduct and "the deluge of #MeToo stories his accusers predicted" did not materialize.[79]Díaz voluntarily resigned as chair of the Pulitzer Prize board soon after the allegations were made public.[98][99]After a five-month review by an independent law firm, the board announced it "did not find evidence warranting removal of Professor Diaz".[100][101]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.New York: Riverhead, 2007.ISBN978-1-59448-958-7

Short story collections[edit]

Children's books[edit]

Essays[edit]

Speculative fiction[edit]

  • "Monstro".LatinxRising.The Ohio State University Press. 2020.[102]

Awards and nominations[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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