Biography
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.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1969-01-19 (55 years old)
Birth PlaceHaiti, Haiti
CitizenshipsHaiti, United States of America
AwardsVilcek Prize, Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, The Story Prize, Langston Hughes Medal, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, MacArthur Fellows Program, National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, American Book Awards, Great Immigrants
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