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Diaz wins book award

Dominican-American author Junot Diaz last night won the National Book Critics Award for fiction for his debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

NYT reviewer Michiko Kakutani has described the story, which weaves comedy and tragedy with 20th century Dominican history, as “Mario Vargas Llosa meets ‘Star Trek’ meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West.”

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