for fiction. Hijuelos was born in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents, Pascual and Magdalena (Torrens) Hijuelos, both from Holguín...
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and musical director Oscar Han (1891–1976), Romanian sculptor and writer Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013), Cuban-American novelist Oscar Holmes (1916–2001),...
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. The film was directed and produced by Arne Glimcher, and stars Armand...
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Hernan Diaz E. L. Doctorow Louise Erdrich Richard Ford Adam Haslett Oscar Hijuelos Ha Jin Denis Johnson Barbara Kingsolver Richard Powers Annie Proulx...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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coach Eglise Gutiérrez, opera singer Reinaldo Arenas, poet and novelist Oscar Hijuelos, Cuban-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author, whose parents were born...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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Kings Play Songs of Love – Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Moon Palace – Paul Auster (1990) Our House in the Last World – Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Skinny Legs and All...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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World War II veteran uncle dismissed them as "stockade cigarettes." In Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, several...
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Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane...
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William Styron, Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Robert Penn Warren, Oscar Hijuelos and Elizabeth Murray, among others, have come to the Academy for inspiration...
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Burgos, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Cristina García, Oscar Hijuelos, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Piri Thomas, Rudy Ruiz, Denise Chavez, Cherrie...
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– George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920) 2013 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (b. 1951) 2013 – Hans Wilhelm Longva,...
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Kings is the soundtrack to the 1992 film of the same name, based on Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Artists...
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American poet Gary Gruber 1962 – best selling author, educator, physicist Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play...
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Drama: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Oscar Hijuelos for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles...
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at University of Florida and widely published researcher and author Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Robert Lima, author...
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American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist 1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (d. 2013) 1952 – Marion Bloem, Dutch author...
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, with Jim Campilongo and the Ten-Gallon Cats 7. "I Want To Eat" Oscar Hijuelos 8. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Cynthia Robins and Billy Philadelphia...
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2012. Steven R. Weismann (April 19, 1974). "World of Books Presents Its Oscars". The New York Times. p. 24. Archived from the original on March 18, 2018...
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even transported." Maureen Freely, reviewing Mr Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos, The Guardian (London), December 17, 1995, p. 15. "BBC Radio 4 - Books...
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In that capacity, he championed the work of students Walter Mosley, Oscar Hijuelos, Philip Graham, Aurelie Sheehan, Salar Abdoh, Ernesto Quiñonez, and...
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Santiago Baca, Luis Valdez, Isabel Allende, Nicholasa Mohr, Gary Soto, Oscar Hijuelos, Denise Chavez Math and Science: Richard A. Tapia, Jaime Escalante Sports:...
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Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. Cuban American author Oscar Hijuelos won a Pulitzer for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and Cristina...
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(born 1977) Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Agnes Leonard Hill (1842–1917)...
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Montagu, Duchess of Manchester Richard Blanco Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Oscar Hijuelos Ambrosio José Gonzales Alicia Alonso Calixto García Alejandro Mayorkas...
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