Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos

Oscar Hijuelos is an American novelist, the son of Cuban immigrants. He was the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer prize for fiction. He has also won the Rome prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His eight novels have been translated into 25 languages. He lives in New York City and teaches at Duke University

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