The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Wins Pulitzer Prize

Posted on April 9, 2008

Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction has won another honor. The book has won the Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life."

The Pulitzer for nonfiction was awarded to The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins).

You can see the full list of winners at pulitzer.org.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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