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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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Dark Dude is now available in Trade Paperback
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Pocono Record, August 12, 2009
...of a film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love' by Oscar Hijuelos. The 1992 film stars Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas in his first English speaking role). Set in the 1950s, the story follows two musicians and...
ShermansTravel, April 30, 2009
...travel. Guest speakers will also be onboard including Arctic explorer and author John Geiger, and Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos. In addition, there will be plenty of ballroom dancing, fine dining, and daytime activities throughout the journey...
The Free Lance-Star, January 11, 2009
...is the best-selling detective novelist of our time. Then there are those ad copywriters turned novelists: Don Delillo, Oscar Hijuelos and Salman Rushdie, who were awarded, respectively, the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the Booker Prize....
Travel Pulse, January 8, 2009
...Kathryn Harrison, who has published six novels and reviews for The New York Times Book Review, April 20; Oscar Hijuelos, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning ?The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,? May 8; Rita Dove, a poet and Pulitzer Prize winner,...
Focus on Travel News, January 7, 2009
...and have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, More, Bookforum and other publications. Oscar Hijuelos ? May 8, 2009 (New York to Southampton) American novelist Hijuelos is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for...
Los Angeles Chronicle, December 2, 2008
...arrived here over 20 years ago. With the growing list of Latino celebrities and award-winnign authors such as Oscar Hijuelos and Junot Diaz, our contributions to to mainstream culture are now more obvious, and I hope, appreciated. This was not always...
Literanista, October 15, 2009
...In Our Lingo: Oscar Hijuelos and Esmeralda Santiago Tuesday, October 20th from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street (Free) www.elmuseo.org Highlighting the...
Language Log, September 6, 2009
...demotions to books by Guild vice-president  Judy Blume  and Guild board members  Nick Lemann ,  James Glieck ,  Oscar Hijuelos , among others.  I don't know exactly what the Google people will say when they cotton to this one, but it's a good...
The CUNY News Wire, August 21, 2009
...Poet Laureate, “Sailing Alone Around in the Room: New and Selected Poems,” Monday, October 12; * CCNY alumnus Oscar Hijuelos, the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “The Mambo Kings” and “Dark Dude,” Monday, November 3; *...
The CUNY News Wire, August 21, 2009
...S. Poet Laureate, “Sailing Alone Around in the Room: New and Selected Poems,” Monday, October 19; CCNY alumnus Oscar Hijuelos, the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, “The Mambo Kings” and “Dark Dude,” Monday, November 3; ...
Book Club Girl, August 13, 2009
...an editor, as well as an author, is a great one. He edited critically acclaimed bestselling authors Russell Banks, Oscar Hijuelos, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Denis Johnson, Armistead Maupin, A.M. Homes, and Mark Doty, to name just a few. He was the...
Biblio File, June 2, 2009
...Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos Set in the late 60s, Rico is fed up with being the only Cubano in Harlem who's blond, light-skinned (he has freckles!) and hazel-eyed. Couple that with the...
UkPoliBlog: Composite feed, April 19, 2009
...s House of Magic by Jamie Martinez Wood..................... JULY: Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda............................ AUGUST: Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos SEPT: Reclaiming Paris by Fabiola Santiago......................................... OCT:...
Naked Without Books!, April 14, 2009
...Rest - John Updike read it/don't own it . 1990- The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love - Oscar Hijuelos haven't read yet/own it . 1989- Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler read it/don't own it/pine for it . 1988- Beloved - Toni Morrison haven't read yet/own it ....
A Line A Day, March 8, 2009
...by Toni Morrison 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1994...
Cruise Talk Central, January 8, 2009
...and have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, More, Bookforum and other publications. Oscar Hijuelos – May 8, 2009 (New York to Southampton) American novelist Hijuelos is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for...
allyson, December 10, 2008
...a long-awaited follow-up. Established and familiar names are joined by many new young voices, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos has written the Introduction. The poets collected here illuminate the difficulty of straddling cultures,...