Junot Dñaz

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor

Junot Dñaz is a Dominican-American author, professor, and Pulitzer Prize winner. He was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to the United States as a teenager. Dñaz is the author of the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008. He is also a professor of creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.