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  1. A conversation with author Oscar Hijuelos
    A conversation with author Oscar Hijuelos

    with Oscar Hijuelos on Feb 25, 2009

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  2. Daily Highlights Wednesday February 25, 2009
    Daily Highlights Wednesday February 25, 2009

    with Oscar Hijuelos and John Podesta on Feb 25, 2009

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    8 min
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Oscar Hijuelos is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His first novel, “Our House in the Last World”, was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His second novel, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”, received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was adapted for the film The Mambo Kings in 1992 and as a Broadway musical in 2005.

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