Junot Diaz grew up in New Jersey but was born in the Dominican Republic. In 2008, Junot Diaz won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for best work of fiction written in English with “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Junot was the second Hispanic novelist to receive this honor, after Oscar Hijuelos obtained it in 1990 with "Mambo Kings Play Songs of love." Although Diaz chose English as his medium of expression, he never aspired to create a failed Spanglish, but an exceptionally creative English, capable of assimilating the Spanish spoken in New York and using it to improve his adopted language. None of his rapporteurs fascinate with this new language, nor become the main subject of the novel, but rather it is used as an amusing vehicle which allows him to present his stories with admirable freedom. Oscar Wao's brief, wonderful life began with failure. , an evening in Mexico with a few drinks and a book by Oscar Wilde. The title didn't matter, what mattered most was the Dominican Republic accent when pronouncing Oscar Wilde in English. Junot Diaz, who was at a party with some friends, had very good praise; “Oscar Wao”, as clear as that, Oscar Wao. Therefore; everyone started laughing but at the same time people didn't pay much attention to what Junot had just said and continued chatting and drinking until the next morning. That very morning, in Junot Díaz's head Oscar Wao, Oscar Wao, Oscar Wao still resonated, like an incoherent but essential song. Despite the fact; Little did Junot Diaz know that the importance of being Oscar Wao was such that it would lead him to the Pulitzer Prize seven years later. Junot Diaz embarked on a novel a few years later and was dizzy when he said "Os.... .. middle of paper ......ge of a Hispanic author who writes in English and occasionally combines words and phrases in Spanish, it is much more than that, its style is a new language that expresses a new form of life The United States is the ground zero of the struggle between the English and the Spanish, Junot Diaz. opens a window to a foreign world of confrontation where Anglo-Hispanics must create something alive and different The writer, an obvious intellectual and linguistic poet, has become a reality full of unknown possibilities and that is probably why he has. was awarded the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle There is no doubt that the brief wonderful life of Oscar Wao marks a turning point in Caribbean literature and perhaps it also marks a beginning for this language, infested with. different points of view more and more followers, called Spanglish.