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Junot Díaz

ジュノ・ディアス

Junot Díaz

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1968-12-31 （Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic）
国籍
Dominican Republic, United States
言語
Spanish, English
居住地歴
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic → Parlin, New Jersey, United States → Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

経歴

職業
Novelist, Professor, Writer
活動期間
1995年〜
所属
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston Review (former fiction editor), Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (founding member)
所属団体
American Academy of Arts and Letters (elected member, 2017)
影響を受けた人物
Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, David Foster Wallace, John Christopher, Gene Wolfe
影響を与えた人物
Younger Latino writers, Contemporary American fiction writers

学歴

Rutgers University–New Brunswick
English
学位: BA
期間: 1988–1992
卒業年: 1992
国: United States
Involved in the creative-writing living-learning community Demarest Hall
Cornell University
Creative writing (MFA)
学位: MFA
期間: 1993–1995
卒業年: 1995
国: United States
Wrote much of his first short story collection during the MFA program

受賞歴

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2008
対象作品: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: Winner
MacArthur Fellowship
2012
主催: MacArthur Foundation
結果: Fellow
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)
2007
対象作品: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: Winner
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
2007
対象作品: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
主催: Center for Fiction
結果: Winner
PEN/Malamud Award
2002
主催: PEN America
結果: Winner
Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters), Brown University
2013
主催: Brown University
結果: Honor
Norman Mailer Prize (Distinguished Writing)
2013
主催: Norman Mailer Center
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Drown

1996年 Short story collection 224ページ

A collection of stories about Dominican-born youths dealing with fatherlessness, poverty, and adapting to life in New Jersey; introduces recurring character(s) later used in Díaz's work.

immigrant experiencefamilypovertyidentity
翻訳
  • Negocios (Spanish translation of Drown)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007年 Novel 339ページ

A multi-generational saga of a Dominican-American family told with footnotes and Spanglish; intertwines personal tragedy with Dominican history.

diasporafamily historytraumapower and oppression
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film rights] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

This Is How You Lose Her

2012年 Short story collection 224ページ

A collection of stories about love, infidelity, and the weaknesses of masculinity; many stories center on the recurring character Yunior.

loveinfidelitymasculinityremorse

Islandborn

2018年 Children's book 40ページ

A children's picture book about a girl recalling memories of her family's island homeland (the Dominican Republic); celebrates diversity and roots.

rootsmemorydiversity

全著作

  • Drown (1996)
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
  • This Is How You Lose Her (2012)
  • Islandborn (2018)
  • Various short stories and essays (published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, etc.)

作品の翻訳

  • Negocios (Spanish translation of Drown)

作風・主題

文体
Use of Spanglish and code-switchingMeta techniques such as frequent footnotes and asidesConversational, rhythmic prose
頻出モチーフ
immigration and diasporafamily and intergenerational influencememory of trauma and violencefragility of masculinity

評価・遺産

Junot Díaz has shaped contemporary American literature by rendering the immigrant experience in a distinctive voice. Winner of major prizes including the Pulitzer and MacArthur fellowships, he became a leading figure among Latino writers; his career has also been marked by public controversies regarding allegations of abusive behavior in 2018.

関連学会

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters

引用

  • “I can safely say I've seen the US from the bottom up... I may be a success story as an individual. But if you adjust the knob and just take it back one setting to the family unit, I would say my family tells a much more complicated story.”
    出典: Interview (2010) (2010年)
  • “My idea, ever since Drown, was to write six or seven books about him that would form one big novel.”
    出典: Remarks/interview (2012年)

豆知識

  • Migrated from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey at age six (1974).
  • Created the recurring character Yunior while in college; Yunior appears across multiple works.
  • Won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008).
  • Received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 (the 'Genius Grant').
  • Faced allegations of abusive behavior in 2018 that generated public controversy; MIT reported no evidence of wrongdoing after investigation.