Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) , a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been...See more
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) , a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been translated into more than forty languages. See less
Oscar Hijuelos's Featured Books
Oscar Hijuelos book reviews
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A Simple Habana Melody
A Difficult Life In Havana
The "Simple Habana Melody" of the title of this book is a song and rumba called "Rosas Puras" (Pretty Roses) that the main character, a fictitious composer named Israel Levis, dashes off in 1928 in ... Read More
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
read it in cuba
It was harder going than I thought and sadder than I expected but it evokes times and places.
I read this book as I travelled around Cuba and the many references to places and attitudes made it a ... Read More
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Thoughts Without Cigarettes
The Making of a Novelist
Oscar Hijuelos' memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, is a vibrant, absorbing, conversational look at the life that produced novels such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of ... Read More
