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Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic appears in the reader ranking through Junot Díaz, who was born in Santo Domingo and moved to New Jersey with his family at the age of six. His first book was the story collection “Drown”. His novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (2007), which moves between New Jersey and the Dominican Republic under the dictator Rafael Trujillo, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008.
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