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Default Re: Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Originally Posted by elcalifornio View Post
Not quite sure why Diaz has the Dominican Republic flag by his name. He's very much American...
I had a quick glance at his Wikipedia page and saw his nationality listed as Dominican Republic, although it does list him as Dominican-American. My thinking is, for those that straddle nationalities (Nabokov, Coetzee, etc.) then, ony able to pick one flag, I choose whichever came first. In concede in this case, since it won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction (!), that it should be the American flag and have therefore changed it.
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