Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), visa mer her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Edwidge Danticat
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (2001) — Redaktör — 65 exemplar
The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon Anthology) (2000) 24 exemplar
Ghosts 2 exemplar
La Rcolte douce des larmes 2 exemplar
Lele (in The Book of Other People - SMITH) 1 exemplar
Dènye Pue Mapou A 1 exemplar
Everything Inside 1 exemplar
Danticat, Edwidge Archive 1 exemplar
The Butterfly's Way 1 exemplar
Duggbryteren 1 exemplar
Coriolis Effect 1 exemplar
Pour l'amour de Claire: Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Simone Arous (Littérature Etrangère) (French Edition) (2014) 1 exemplar
Without Inspection 1 exemplar
Edwidge Datacat-member choice 1 exemplar
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The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 345 exemplar
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 175 exemplar
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 138 exemplar
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 113 exemplar
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 97 exemplar
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 93 exemplar
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 86 exemplar
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 73 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Förord; Bidragsgivare — 71 exemplar
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 47 exemplar
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Shape of Water [2006 film] — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1969-01-19
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Haiti
USA - Födelseort
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Bostadsorter
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- Barnard College (BA|1990|French literature)
Brown University (MFA|1993|Creative writing) - Yrken
- author
- Organisationer
- New York University (instructor, creative writing)
University of Miami (instructor, creative writing)
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation (recipient of on-going grant) - Priser och utmärkelser
- One of "20 people in their twenties who will make a difference" (Harpers Bazaar)
One of "30 under 30" people to watch (New York Times magazine)
One of the "15 Gutsiest Women of the Year" (Jane magazine)
Woman of Achievement Award (1995 ∙ Barnard College)
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2004)
Benjamin H. Danks Award (Fiction ∙ 2005) (visa alla 9)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2018)
MacArthur Fellow (2009) - Kort biografi
- Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969. She came to the United States when she was twelve years old and, only two years later, published her first writings in English. She holds an undergraduate degree is in French literature from Barnard College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown Unversity. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Edwidge Danticat's short stories have appeared in 25 periodicals. She won a 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize as well as fiction awards from several magazines. In addition to her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, winning wide acclaim, her book of short stories, Krik? Krak!, was chosen as a National Book Award finalist in 1995.
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"Nineteen Thirty-Seven" is a painful story about a woman visiting her mother in prison. Her mother is accused of flying. The government believes she is a witch, capable of rising like a bird on fire.
"A Wall of Fire Rising" tells the short but devastating story of a family barely making ends meet.
"Night Women" demonstrates the lengths a woman will go in order to provide for her child.
"Between the Pool and the Gardenias" is another heartbreaking story about loss.
"The Missing Peace" illuminates innocence abandoned.
"Seeing Things Simply" shares the story of an artist looking for beauty while ugliness crowds all around her.
"New York Day Women" demonstrates just how much a mother's love can suffocate a daughter.
"Caroline's Wedding" weaves a tale of expectation in age old customs.
"Women Like Us" is a message to daughters.
"In the Old Days" is an additional story for the twentieth anniversary edition of Krik? Krak! It tells the story of a woman asked to visit her dying father, a man she has never met.… (mer)