[Cwgrad-announcements] Junot Diaz reading Wednesday night - Pomona

[Vanessa Hua]

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Junot Díaz to Give Reading on Campus
Junot Díaz, author of the widely acclaimed novel *The Brief, Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao*, will give a reading on November 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the Rose
Hills Theater in the Smith Campus Center. Díaz received the 2008 Pulitzer
Prize for his work, a lively novel that mixes English, Spanish and Spanglish
to tell the story of Oscar, a 300-pound geek who wants to be the next
Tolkien, and his Dominican-American family who suffer from a
multi-generational curse.

Díaz has won several awards for his novel—his second book after a collection
of short stories titled *Drown* (1996)—including the Pulitzer, the John
Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008
Pulitzer Prize. *The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* was also declared
the best novel of 2007 by *Time* and *New York Magazine*.

*Entertainment Weekly* called the book ""Terrific. . . . Narrated in
high-energy Spanglish, the book is packed with wide-ranging cultural
references--to *Dune*, Julia Alvarez, *The Sound of Music*--as well as
erudite and hilarious footnotes on Caribbean history. It is a joy to read,
and every bit as exhilarating to reread."

Díaz is the fiction editor at the *Boston Review* and Nancy Allen professor
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The reading will be preceded by the Latin American Studies Fall Reception at
the Smith Campus Plaza at 4:15 p.m. Book purchases and book signings will be
available after the reading as time permits.
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