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Edwidge Danticat


Born
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
January 19, 1969

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Travel, Nonfiction


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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 165,944 ratings · 16,520 reviews · 133 distinct works • Similar authors
Breath, Eyes, Memory
3.90 avg rating — 31,188 ratings — published 1994 — 57 editions
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Everything Inside
3.68 avg rating — 12,362 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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Claire of the Sea Light
3.67 avg rating — 11,300 ratings — published 2013
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The Farming of Bones
4.08 avg rating — 9,938 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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Krik? Krak!
4.16 avg rating — 9,704 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Brother, I'm Dying
4.16 avg rating — 7,721 ratings — published 2007
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The Dew Breaker
3.81 avg rating — 8,396 ratings — published 2004
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Untwine
3.71 avg rating — 3,126 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Ha...
3.78 avg rating — 2,290 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Create Dangerously: The Imm...
4.23 avg rating — 1,652 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
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“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
tags: dominican-republic, haiti, quisqueya, women, writing
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“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”
― Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
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December 2024 New School Classics Poll

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1963, 306 pages
 
  70 votes, 38.5%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 455 pages
 
  28 votes, 15.4%

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 1932, 363 pages
 
  24 votes, 13.2%

Wise Children by Angela Carter, 1991, 240 pages
 
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