Edwidge Danticat is the author or editor of eighteen books, including several for children and young adults, and the recipient of multiple prizes, including the Neustadt Prize for International Literature, a National Book Critics Circle Award, an American Book Award, and the Story Prize. Her essays and stories have been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and many other publications.
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Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a Natio...
Following the performances of two Haitian-inspired dances at the 2018 festival, Danticat delivered the following keynote to the audience of several hundred in attendance.
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This past June I w...
New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307271792
Max Ardin Sr., the suspiciously high-minded schoolmaster in Claire of the Sea Light, says something memorable about life’s painful separations when h...