Oscar Hijuelos

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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, … Wikipedia
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    The novel of immigrant life is a durable and extremely significant tradition in American literature, and Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos has emerged as one of its top recent practitioners.
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    Oscar Hijuelos was born of Cuban parentage in New York City in 1951.
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    Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , Mr. Ives' Christmas , and several others, has always had a desire to write.
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    August 24 is the birthday of novelist Oscar Hijuelos . Born in New York in 1951, he is the son of Jose Hijuelos , a hotel worker, and Magdalena Torrens , a homemaker. Both of his parents had immigrated to the United States from Cuba. Hijuelos attended
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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 fictio
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    The most recent novel by Hijuelos, "Empress of the Splendid Season," is also receiving positive reviews. In early September 2000, Hijuelos will be honored at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of the National Hispanic Heritage Awards. This e
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    Oscar Hijuelos was born of Cuban parentage in New York City in 1951. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. His five previous novels have
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    Oscar Hijuelos is the only Latino to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which he won in 1990 for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , a bittersweet exploration of the lives of two Cuban-born musicians and their families in the 1950s. His wo
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