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Junot Díaz

1968 - Today

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Junot Díaz (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junot Díaz has received more than 1,377,800 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Junot Díaz is the 6,202nd most popular writer (down from 5,532nd in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Dominican Republic (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Dominican Writer.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 35.42

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Junot Díaz ranks 6,202 out of 5,755Before him are Virginia Hamilton, Charles Krauthammer, Anna Burns, Pat Cadigan, Craig Thomas, and Jay Asher. After him are John Crowe Ransom, Cyril Montana, Seth Meyers, Marian Keyes, Mark Manson, and Ilija Trojanow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Junot Díaz ranks 564Before him are Ilya Smirin, Teppo Numminen, Mauricio Serna, Jeff VanderMeer, Kazuya Maekawa, and Dimitri Diatchenko. After him are Dan Calichman, Magnus Erlingmark, Bjarne Goldbæk, Chris Boardman, Gianluca Bortolami, and Shahbaz Bhatti.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Junot Díaz ranks 33 out of 47Before him are Natti Natasha (1990), Pedro Martínez (1971), Albert Pujols (1980), David Ortiz (1975), Amelia Vega (1984), and Robinson Canó (1982). After him are Sonia Pierre (1963), Bartolo Colón (1973), Dascha Polanco (1982), Junior Firpo (1996), José Bautista (1980), and Víctor Estrella Burgos (1980).

Among WRITERS In Dominican Republic

Among writers born in Dominican Republic, Junot Díaz ranks 1

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