In a notice has announced for the award of the Pulitzer prizes, the competent Committee of the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly have completed their investigation of the Case of Junot Díaz. In the past five months, the firm interviewed dozens of witnesses and numerous documents (including audio recordings) will be analysed in order to examine the allegations against Díaz, he had harassed several women.
in the end, the lawyers had come to the conclusion, that from your investigation that there is insufficient evidence, to Díaz, the Pulitzer prize-exclude Committee. Díaz had been placed for the duration of the investigation of his or her duties for bias reasons, are temporarily low. The Committee invited him to resume his work and to fulfill its until April 2019 continuing term of office.
The “New York Times” quoted Díaz to a message that had been sent by his PR agent. “I am thankful that the investigation has found out the truth,” says Díaz: “I am looking forward to the important work for the Pulitzer’s resume.” He praised the thoroughness and determination with which the firm have the investigation carried out.
A Essay, several allegations
In April, had accused several women of Díaz, to have bothered you. The American author Zinzi Clemmons accused the writer and high school teacher, he at the age of 26, when she was a student at New York’s Columbia University, against their will, harassed, and kissed. There are many women that would share her fate. The writers Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne declared that Díaz had attacked you verbally in the wild and misogynistic Form.
Shortly before learning of Bahis Siteleri the allegations, Díaz had declared in a much-noticed Essay in the magazine “New Yorker”, he has been as an eight-year-old raped. This had a lasting harmful impact on his life. Díaz reported, among other things, depression, alcohol problems, infidelity, and a derogatory treatment of women.
In may, Díaz price was the chairmanship of the prestigious Pulitzer Committee that he had only taken a month earlier. Something sibyllin, he said at that time that he take responsibility for his past. You have to “do to all men to teach what consent is and where the limits are.”
“I kissed Zinzi Clemmons never”
In an Interview with the “Boston Globe” had rejected the 48-Year-old in July, then all of the allegations, the writer Clemmons. “I have no one to kiss. I kissed Zinzi Clemmons against their will. I kissed Zinzi Clemmons”, – quotes the “Boston Globe”, the writer. He was shocked by the allegations “, and unhinged” have been confused. He had harassed the women never or inappropriately treated.
in mid-June, had already decided the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M. I. T.), to keep Díaz in his teaching body, after there is an investigation of the allegations gained no information from which further action is required.
in the Dominican Republic-born author had received the 2008 Pulitzer prize for his novel “The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao”. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE Interview, he had expressed in the year 2009 to depression and his difficulties with women. While Writing his award-winning novel he had worn “three Girlfriends”, because he had been Writing “so damn depressed and miserable”.
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