Edwidge Danticat

1969 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: short story

country of citizenship: United States of America, Haiti

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Brown University, Barnard College, Clara Barton High School, University of the West Indies

occupation: writer, novelist, children's writer, university teacher

award received: MacArthur Fellows Program, Langston Hughes Medal, The Story Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, American Book Awards, Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Vilcek Prize, Great Immigrants

official website: www.edwidgedanticat.com

Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. As of the fall of 2023, she will be the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Source: Wikipedia (en)