Oscar Hijuelos
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| Oscar Hijuelos | |
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| Born | August 24, 1951 New York City |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | USA |
| Notable work(s) | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Notable award(s) | Pulitzer |
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was adapted for the film The Mambo Kings in 1992 and as a Broadway musical in 2005.
Hijuelos lives in New York City.
[edit] Bibliography
- Our House in the Last World (1983)
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1990)
- 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) |
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[edit] External links
- Oscar Hijuelos's page at HarperCollins
- Biography of Oscar Hijuelos from Thomson Gale
- 1990 Real Audio interview with Oscar Hijuelos at Wired for Books.org by Don Swaim
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