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About Junot Diaz
Dominican American writer and creative writing professor
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer and creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with 131 quotes on the site. He was also a former fiction editor at Boston Review. His work centers on the immigrant experience, especially the Latino immigrant experience. That focus shapes much of what he is known for as a writer and teacher.
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- “I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.”Junot Diaz
- “Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.”Junot Diaz
- “I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my wri…”Junot Diaz
- “I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.”Junot Diaz
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