The Most Famous
WRITERS from Dominican Republic
This page contains a list of the greatest Dominican Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 1 of which were born in Dominican Republic. This makes Dominican Republic the birth place of the 145th most number of Writers behind Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Republic of the Congo.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dominican Writers of all time. This list of famous Dominican Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Junot Díaz (b. 1968)
With an HPI of 36.94, Junot Díaz is the most famous Dominican Writer. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Junot Díaz ( JOO-noh; born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Díaz migrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, and shortly after graduating created the character "Yunior", who served as narrator of several of his later books. After obtaining his MFA from Cornell University, Díaz published his first book, the 1995 short story collection Drown. Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Dominican writers born between 1968 and 1968. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dominican writers include Junot Díaz.
