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Junot Díaz is among the 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation’s ‘Genius’ Grant. He won for his use of ‘raw, vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants must straddle.’

Check out our interview with Díaz here!


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    love his boooks. this makes me happy.
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    he is so amazing. and he shook my hand.
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    I love this man.