About Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat 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. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named 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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Awards & Honors
Great Immigrants Award
American Book Awards
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
MacArthur Fellows Program
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Langston Hughes Medal
The Story Prize
Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
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Vilcek Prize
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
