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Oscar Hijuelos

Lori Marie Carlson is the author of two novels, two landmark bilingual poetry anthologies, and many other young adult and children's books. Oscar Hijuelos is a first-generation Cuban American and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has written six novels, the most recent of which is A Simple Habana Melody. They live in New York City.

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Marietta Daily Journal, April 29, 2012
...and creativity are a spellbinding combination. I was less familiar with “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” Oscar Hijuelos’ novel, winning the Prize in 1990, but for the most part, the Pulitzer stamp has connected me and other readers to works of...
Huffington Post, April 20, 2012
...the three. (You can get the list of Board members via Google.) In a letter to the Editor, Oscar Hijuelos points out , quite reasonably, that the board has "its own criteria and tastes," but it strikes me as bizarre that individuals who are not...
SBWire, April 20, 2012
...perspective. Featuring a cavalcade of over 117 Latino poets, writers and artists, highlights include Interviews of Esmeralda Santiago, Oscar Hijuelos, Nelly Rosario, Gary Soto, and Junot Diaz; and tributes to Piri Thomas and Louis Reyes Rivera. Short...
New York Times, April 18, 2012
...the difference being that a consensus about a particular title could not, in the end, be equitably reached. OSCAR HIJUELOS Durham, N.C., April 18, 2012 The writer won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. To the...
1888PressRelease, December 21, 2011
...Castro, Silvia Curbelo, Uva de Aragon, multiple Obie Awards winner Maria Irene Fornes, Cristina Garcia, Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos, Manuel Martin, Pablo Medina, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Achy Obejas, Martha Padilla, Ricardo Pau Llosa, and...
NOLA Live, November 8, 2011
...At this week?s gathering, for example, three Pulitzer Prize winners will participate: fiction writers Robert Olen Butler and Oscar Hijuelos, and playwright Nilo Cruz. John Biguenet, the much-honored New Orleans playwright and fiction writer, will...
NOLA Live, November 4, 2011
...participants here. For details, schedules and ticket prices go to wordsandmusic.org. Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir by Oscar Hijuelos Penguin Group, $27.50 In his first nonfiction work, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist traces his life from...
Isanti County News, February 28, 2012
...and blood like Jack, like Marlys was. Mr. Ives, a saint of a man, is the hero of Oscar Hijuelos’ novel “Mr. Ives’ Christmas.” Mr. Bascombe, the protagonist in Richard Ford’s novels “The Sportswriter” and “Independence Day” is also a...
WCPO, February 8, 2012
...and Cole Porter. Combine 2008 Best Foreign Language nominee "Waltz with Bashir" (another adult animated feature) and writer Oscar Hijuelos’s 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" with accents of Wim Wender’s 1999...
Kentucky Post, February 8, 2012
...and Cole Porter. Combine 2008 Best Foreign Language nominee "Waltz with Bashir" (another adult animated feature) and writer Oscar Hijuelos’s 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" with accents of Wim Wender’s 1999...
Guardian.co.uk, January 5, 2012
...one of the world's 100 most influential people. The magazine's profile, written by the American novelist Oscar Hijuelos, described her "feisty dedication to the truth". "Under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sánchez has practiced...
GalleyCat, October 5, 2011
...Stories by Melinda Moustakis (selected by Jaimy Gordon) Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (selected by Oscar Hijuelos) Like last year, the “5 Under 35″ celebration will take place in Brooklyn’s powerHouse Arena at the start of National...
Colloquium, September 23, 2011
...s Simple by Michelle Richardson Delicacy by David Foenkinos Poisoned Love by Caitlin Rothers Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos Leaving the Hall Light On by Madeline Sharples Heiress by Susan May Warren Almost Home by Mariah Stewart ...
Jacket Copy, July 31, 2011
...In Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Hector Tobar finds Oscar Hijuelos' memoir "Thoughts Without Cigarettes" "deeply affecting." The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love" revisits his multicultural New York childhood and later...