Prof. Junot Díaz, Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Date: February 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Registration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed.
Priority given to HKU staff and students.
Registration is open from 10/02/2025 10:00 (HKT) to 17/02/2025 23:59 (HKT)
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Venue: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU (Location map)
Abstracts
Social media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks - in certain cases, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal).
Bibliography
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop.
Junot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:
2008 Pulitzer Prize
National Book Critics Circle Award
More information about Junot Díaz from his official website here