Hernán Díaz
Hernán Díaz
b. 1973 · From Argentina, citizen of United States6
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Hernán Díaz is an Argentine-American writer born in Buenos Aires in 1973. At age two his family fled to Sweden after Argentina's 1976 military coup, returning when democracy was restored in 1983. He earned a PhD in comparative literature from New York University and is associate director of the Hisp…
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What fellowships and honors has Hernán Díaz received?
Beyond the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (awarded to his novel Trust in 2023), Díaz has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2019 Whiting Award. His debut novel, In the Distance, separately won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.