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Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic writer to win Pulitzer fiction prize, dies aged 62
Source: The Guardian
Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic writer to win Pulitzer fiction prize, dies aged 62
Sophie Robehmed
theguardian.com, Monday 14 October 2013 01.39 BST
Oscar Hijuelos, the first Cuban-born novelist to win the Pulitzer prize for fiction for his best-selling book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has died in Manhatten at the age of 62.
Hijuelos collapsed on a tennis court on Saturday and never regained consciousness, his wife, Lori Marie Carlson, said.
Born in New York in 1951 to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos specialised in writing about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture. He launched his career in 1983 with his first novel, Our House in the Last World, which documents the trials and tribulations of a family moving from Havana in 1939 to Spanish Harlem. He was best-known for his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, about Cesar and Nestor Castillo, a pair of Cuban-born musician brothers that emigrate to the Big Apple in the 50s and achieve fifteen minutes of fame after appearing on the television sitcom, I Love Lucy.
The book earned Hijuelos the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1990 and was later adapted for the big screen, with Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante starring as the brothers in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster.
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Sophie Robehmed
theguardian.com, Monday 14 October 2013 01.39 BST
Oscar Hijuelos, the first Cuban-born novelist to win the Pulitzer prize for fiction for his best-selling book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has died in Manhatten at the age of 62.
Hijuelos collapsed on a tennis court on Saturday and never regained consciousness, his wife, Lori Marie Carlson, said.
Born in New York in 1951 to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos specialised in writing about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture. He launched his career in 1983 with his first novel, Our House in the Last World, which documents the trials and tribulations of a family moving from Havana in 1939 to Spanish Harlem. He was best-known for his second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, about Cesar and Nestor Castillo, a pair of Cuban-born musician brothers that emigrate to the Big Apple in the 50s and achieve fifteen minutes of fame after appearing on the television sitcom, I Love Lucy.
The book earned Hijuelos the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1990 and was later adapted for the big screen, with Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante starring as the brothers in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/14/oscar-hijuelos-writer-pulitzer-prize-winner-dies
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