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Dominican Juan Luis Guerra receives honorary doctorate

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Boston.– Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra received an honorary doctorate from the University Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied for over two decades.
“Most musicians I know in the south of Miami want to come to Berklee, because Juan Luis Guerra studied here,” Roger Brown said during the ceremony, the chancellor of the […]

Junot Diaz, the first Dominican author to win a Pulitzer

Monday, April 14th, 2008

SANTO DOMINGO.- Just days away from the inaugural of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair 2008, Dominican literature in the pen of Junot Diaz obtains the highest prize, a Pulitzer, the first for an author from this country.