Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author
Artistic Expression Award is presented to an artist or a group that has demonstrated dedication to their craft by persevering and achieving success while enhancing the image of the Latino community.
Junot Díaz is a Creative Writing professor at MIT, the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.
