About Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos was an American novelist. Oscar Hijuelos was born on August 24, 1951. In addition to the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Hijuelos received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1983, the year he published his first novel, Our House in the Last World. For his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (later adapted for the movie The Mambo Kings), he became the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983, and won the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1985 the novel received the Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome.
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