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Author Junot Díaz called unpatriotic as Dominican Republic strips him of award
Source: The Guardian
Author Junot Díaz called unpatriotic as Dominican Republic strips him of award
Joanna Walters in New York
Sunday 25 October 2015 11.00 GMT
The 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, was called “anti-Dominican” on Thursday by the Dominican Republic’s consul in New York, Eduardo Selman.
Selman also stripped Diaz of the order of merit award given to him in 2009, according to Spanish-language media.
Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey at the age of six, went to Washington on Thursday with the Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat, there to urge the US government to take action to curb what they said was the persecution of large numbers of immigrants, mainly Haitians, in the Dominican Republic.
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Joanna Walters in New York
Sunday 25 October 2015 11.00 GMT
The 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, was called “anti-Dominican” on Thursday by the Dominican Republic’s consul in New York, Eduardo Selman.
Selman also stripped Diaz of the order of merit award given to him in 2009, according to Spanish-language media.
Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey at the age of six, went to Washington on Thursday with the Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat, there to urge the US government to take action to curb what they said was the persecution of large numbers of immigrants, mainly Haitians, in the Dominican Republic.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/25/junot-diaz-author-dominican-republic-haiti-immigration
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