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Oscar Hijuelos
American novelist
Oscar Jerome Hijuelos (August 24, 1951 – October 12, 2013) was an American novelist.
Of Cuban descent, during a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language.[2][3] He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
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.[4][5]
Early life
Hijuelos was born in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents, Pascual and Magdalena (Torrens) Hijuelos, both from Holguín, Cuba.[4][6][7] His father worked as a hotel cook.[8] As a young child, he suffered from acute nephritis after a vacation trip to Cuba with his mother and brother José, and was in St.
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