Junot Diaz 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 Diaz here!
TWO OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS WON THE MACARTHUR GRANT
UGH IT’S ALL I WANT IN LIFE
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