Edwidge Danticat |
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Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in
1969. Her parents emigrated to New York when she
was a small child, while she and her brother remained
in Haiti, where they were raised by an aunt and uncle.
At the age of twelve she moved to Brooklyn to be with
her parents.
Danticat began writing as a teenager, and her essays
and stories have appeared in many periodicals. She
received a degree in French literature from Barnard
College and an MFA in writing from Brown University.
At Brown she completed work on Breath, Eyes,
Memory, which she had begun as an undergraduate,
and the novel was published in 1994. After finishing
her master's degree, Danticat worked in Clinica
Estetico, the production office of film director Jonathan
Demme, who has a consuming interest in Haiti. She
read and wrote scripts and continues to monitor and
occasionally protest American policy in Haiti. In late
1994, Danticat returned to Haiti for the first time in
thirteen years, to see President Aristide restored to
power.
Danticat is the recipient of a James Michener
Fellowship and awards from Seventeen magazine and
from Essence. She is also the author of a collection of
Haitian stories, Krik? Krak!, which was a National
Book Award finalist. She lives
in New York City.
Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
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