Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Rome Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award. He was the son of Cuban immigrants and was the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize when his book The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love won in 1990 for best fiction. His works have been translated into forty languages.
