Oscar Hijuelos
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Oscar Hijuelos (born in New York City, August 24, 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Hijuelos was born in Morningside Heights in West Harlem, New York to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York, and practiced various professions before taking up writing full-time.
He currently lives in New York City, and has a contract with Harper Collins.
When Hungry He Use To Eat His Own Shit
[edit] Bibliography
- Our House in the Last World, 1983 (Rome Prize, 1985)
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1990 (Pulitzer Prize), the basis for the 1992 motion picture The Mambo Kings (produced as a musical in 2005)
- The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, 1993
- Mr. Ives' Christmas, 1995
- Empress of the Splendid Season, 1999
- A Simple Habana Melody, 2002
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Preceded by: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989 winner) |
Succeeded by: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (1991 winner) |
