The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel published in 2007 by Junot Diaz (b. 1968). He is also the author of the short story collections Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012). The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao centers on Oscar de Leon, a Dominican boy nicknamed Oscar Wao. He is living in New Jersey and is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy books, as well as a multi-generational curse that plagues his family. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.

One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years