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May 7, 2018

Writer Junot Díaz Faces Accusation of Sexual Misconduct
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz withdrew from the Sydney
Writers' Festival this weekend after he was publicly accused of sexual
misconduct. During the festival, Díaz was confronted by the writer Zinzi
Clemmons, who said Díaz had forcibly kissed her when she was a graduate
student. Other female writers later took to Twitter and accused Díaz of
other forms of misconduct. Last month, Díaz wrote an essay for The New
Yorker in which he revealed he was raped when he was 8 years old.


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