The
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Oscar Hijuelos
(1951- )
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Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City in 1951
to Cuban-American parents. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees
from City University of New York. In 1990 Hijuelos became the first Hispanic-American
writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). His accolades include a citation
as an outstanding writer from Pushcart Press (1978) for the short story
Columbus Discovering America, a fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts for Creative Writers and the Rome Prize in literature for
his first novel, Our House in the Last World (1983). The Mambo
Kings Play Songs of Love, was the basis for the movie The Mambo
Kings (1992). Hijuelos has also written The Fourteen Sisters of
Emilio Montez O'Brien (1993); Mr. Ives' Christmas (1995); and
Empress of the Splendid Season (1999). |
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