Junot Diaz, having already won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, can now add a Dayton Literary Peace Prize to add to his collection. (The nonfiction prize went to Edwige Danticat for Brother, I’m Dying.)
The announcement came just a day after MIT professor Henry Jenkins posted his Junot Diaz geek detection quiz, listing many of the novel’s (sub)cultural references and inviting incoming graduate students to see how many they can identify, from Muhammad Ali, Akira, and Lloyd Alexander to Wonder Woman, X-Men, and Zardoz. How well would you score?
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