Junot Diaz has just won the Pulitzer for "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Awarded to "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books). The Pulitzer Prizes
Wow! This is one of my favorites in the past year. This is a first novel based on a short story first published in the New Yorker.
Woo hoo - doin' the happy dance for Junot. And the 10k doesn't hurt either.
