Junot Díaz, the MIT writing professor widely acclaimed for his vivid, inventive works of fiction, has recently been awarded a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship. The MacArthur Foundation cited Díaz for his stories that use "raw, vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants must straddle." Díaz presented "Fear and Control and the Challenge of Writing" on November 1, 2012.
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