Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction Juno Diaz on his first visit to India to participate at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, speaks to Fiona Fernandez about the familiarities between his native country, the Dominican Republic and India, migration, and why he thinks Indian women are hot

Junot Diaz would pass off as the casual, candid, pullover-sporting sports coach from your typical Hollywood flick. Or at least it was exactly this demeanour that caught most of the media unaware when he strolled into Diggi Palace, the venue of the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival,u00a0 on Saturday. Sunday Mid Day caught up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican American author for a chat:

Since this is your first visit to India, what's struck you most about the country?
More than anything, it's the glaring fact that India has more diversity than the rest of the world put together. It seems that way to any outsider. Even if I spend an entire year here, I'd still think I haven't seen anything.