Edwidge Danticat

Kasia Mika (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)

Ed. by Maeve McCusker, Queen's University Belfast
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.2: Francophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Maeve McCusker (Queen's University Belfast), David Murphy (University of Strathclyde)

Dates

Born 19 Jan 1969
Activity 1993-ongoing

Places

Born in Haiti
Active in Haiti; United States

Cultural Identities

Caribbean/ Antillean French

Activities

Primary

Editor
Novelist

Other

Film Director
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Danticat's Works

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Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning Haitian American writer best known for

Breath, Eyes, Memory

(1994),

Brother, I’m Dying

(2007),

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

(2010), and

Claire of Sea Light

(2013). She is an author of acclaimed novels, books for young adults, children’s stories, collections of non-fiction writing, as well as the editor of anthologies of poetry and of

noir

short stories. She has also collaborated on documentary film projects and is a regular contributor to

The New Yorker

and

The New York Times

Danticat was born on 19th January 1969 in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. She comes from a lower-class background with strong provincial and peasant roots and has experienced a life of economic hardship and family separation. In an attempt to provide

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Citation: Mika, Kasia. "Edwidge Danticat". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 August 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5862, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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