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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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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...
Davis Enterprise, October 26, 2011
...California system. The 231st class also included singer-songwriter  Paul Simon, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian  Annette Gordon-Reed,  Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist  Oscar Hijuelos,  cancer researcher  Clara Bloomfield,  Academy Award...
Washington City Paper, September 22, 2011
...listserv this summer, but found one last one, Pulitzer prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. It's approximately 3 hours long." Perhaps you avoided your summer reading; nothing wrong with getting started in the fall!...
Los Angeles Times, 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...
AllVoices, July 11, 2011
...Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American author and previous recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, has written about the struggles of his parents' generation in the past and recently wrote a memoir of his...
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...
Havana Times.org, July 21, 2011
...ShareTweetShareTweetHAVANA TIMES, July 21 — Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos gave an interview to The Browser.com website where he selects his favorite five books by Cuban authors.  He chose works by Leonardo Padura, Carlos Eire,...
Repeating Islands, July 14, 2011
...Budd Mishkin of NY1.com sat down for an interview with Oscar Hijuelos. The link below will take you to the video that accompanies the text.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos will write notes to himself at any time on anything.  ...
Largehearted Boy, July 11, 2011
...« older | Main Largehearted Boy Page July 11, 2011 Shorties (Radiohead, Oscar Hijuelos, and more) Radiohead premiered two new songs in a Canal+ From the Basement video session this past weekend. Oscar Hijuelos talks to Weekend Edition about his new...
TLC Book Tours, July 1, 2011
...all that and so much more to discuss in Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his novels that feature locales as exotic as beautiful Havana and subjects as universal as...