Writer of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao loses order of merit award after campaigning on behalf of undocumented immigrants to his native countryThe author Junot Díaz has been accused of being unpatriotic and stripped of an award,after he campaigned in Washington for the rights of undocumented immigrants.
Díaz, whose novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, or was called anti-Dominican on Thursday by the Dominican Republic’s consul in novel York,Eduardo Selman.
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Source: theguardian.com