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Oscar Hijuelos turns the characters and experiences of his Cuban-American heritage into fictional works that consistently win both critical and popular praise.Hijuelos was the first Latino to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction, honored for his lyrical second novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, which was later turned into a film starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas.A Simple Habana Melody is his sixth novel.