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Writer and Activist Junot Diaz at CSU Friday October 11, 2013 5:00-6:30 pmSubmitted by lmcshane on Tue, 10/08/2013 - 06:26.
10/11/2013 - 17:00 10/11/2013 - 18:30 Etc/GMT-4 Cultural Crossings Presents Junot Díaz Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimedDrown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information contact: Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera; a [dot] medinarivera [at] csuohio [dot] edu; 216.523.7168
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Advocate for Universality at CSU Friday
Junot Diaz is working to make the struggles we all share --understood for the commonality of the human experience - by categorizing individuals as "immigrant" we marginalize and this is destroying the fabric of democracy.