Edwidge Danticat
Autor/a de Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sobre l'autor
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), mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Edwidge Danticat
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (2001) — Editor — 65 exemplars
The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon Anthology) (2000) 24 exemplars
Ghosts 2 exemplars
La Rcolte douce des larmes 2 exemplars
Lele (in The Book of Other People - SMITH) 1 exemplars
Dènye Pue Mapou A 1 exemplars
Everything Inside 1 exemplars
Danticat, Edwidge Archive 1 exemplars
The Butterfly's Way 1 exemplars
Duggbryteren 1 exemplars
Coriolis Effect 1 exemplars
Pour l'amour de Claire: Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Simone Arous (Littérature Etrangère) (French Edition) (2014) 1 exemplars
Without Inspection 1 exemplars
Edwidge Datacat-member choice 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Col·laborador — 345 exemplars
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 152 exemplars
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Col·laborador — 138 exemplars
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Col·laborador — 97 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Pròleg; Col·laborador — 71 exemplars
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (2019) — Col·laborador — 47 exemplars
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2003) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
The Shape of Water [2006 film] — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1969-01-19
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Haiti
USA - Lloc de naixement
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Llocs de residència
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educació
- Barnard College (BA|1990|French literature)
Brown University (MFA|1993|Creative writing) - Professions
- author
- Organitzacions
- New York University (instructor, creative writing)
University of Miami (instructor, creative writing)
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation (recipient of on-going grant) - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 9)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2018)
MacArthur Fellow (2009) - Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Ressenyes
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First Novels (1)
1990s (1)
to get (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 49
- També de
- 57
- Membres
- 11,129
- Popularitat
- #2,122
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 341
- ISBN
- 265
- Llengües
- 13
- Preferit
- 46
"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.… (més)