id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1257 Oscar Hijuelos - Wikipedia .html text/html 2788 349 76 Hijuelos started writing short stories and dramas while working in advertising.[10] His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983, and won the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[10] This novel follows the life of a Cuban family in the United States during the 1940s. In addition to the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Hijuelos received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1983, the year he published his first novel, Our House in the Last World. "Oscar Hijuelos, Cuban-American Writer Who Won Pulitzer, Dies at 62". ^ a b c d e BBC News: Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos dies at 62 (accessed October 14, 2013) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1257.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1257.txt