Junot Diaz sends regards to Boston Latino TV!

Junot Díaz (born 31 December 1968) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer. He moved to the United States with his parents at age six, settling in New Jersey. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience.

Díaz spent 11 years writing the tale of Oscar Wao--a Spanish pronunciation of Oscar Wilde--a teenage Dominican who buries his broken heart and frustration in sci-fi novels and Star Trek action figures. Oscar's family lives much as Díaz' own family did, the author has said, balancing two lives, two cultures, in New Jersey and their native Dominican Republic.

"Oscar Wao" received glowing reviews when it was published by Riverhead Press in September 2007. Time magazine called it "astoundingly great," while book critic Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times said "Oscar Wao" had established Díaz as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices.

Junot sends warms regards to all Boston Latino TV viewers from New York City!

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