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Novel about ghetto nerd nabs Pulitzer.(RANTS & RAVES)(Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz)(Brief article)
THIS YEAR, DOMINICAN AMERICAN novelist Junot Diaz became the sixth writer of color to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the award's 60-year history for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The book is about a fat "lovesick ghetto nerd" tackling a 500-year family curse stretching all the way back to its roots in ...
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