Gorgeous 10th anniversary edition-complete with a new story! Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted writer.

She has collected books to send to Haitian schools and visited American schools with a heavy population of Haitian students.Įdwidge Danticat now lives in Miami and continues to write novels and short stories.'Edwidge Danticat's only short story collection. Her concern for Haitian immigrants led her to work with the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees (NCHR) which fights for immigration rights for Haitians in the United States. MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” in September 2009.ĭanticat’s writings combine the cultural and economical experiences in Haiti and America. Her most recent honors include the prestigious John D. Her recent works include a children’s book, Behind the Mountains, which was published in 2003 The Dew Breaker, a novel published in 2004 Anacoana, a young-adult novel published in 2005 and Brother I’m Dying, published 2007 in honor of her uncle Joseph Danticat, who was her guardian in Haiti. Her novel The Farming of Bones won the 1999 Prix Carbet award in France. A year later she released her second novel, The Farming of Bones, which recounted the 1937 massacre of Haitian cane workers in the Dominican Republic then ruled by President Rafael Trujillo.ĭanticat’s works have been translated into French, Spanish, German, and Dutch. Breath, Eyes, Memory was released in 1998 and soon afterward featured by Oprah’s Book Club. The anthology was also a finalist for the National Book Award for that year. In 1995, Danticat published Krik? Krak!, a collection of her short stories, which won her the Pushcart Short Stories Prize. She received an MA degree at Brown University in 1993 and later used her thesis as the basis for her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, which explored the immigration process to America from a child’s point of view. During her time at Barnard College, she published a number of short stories in magazines such as Essence and Seventeen. In 1981, when she was twelve years old, she and her brother moved to Brooklyn to be reunited with her parents and her two youngest siblings.ĭanticat attended Barnard College where she received her BA degree in French Literature in 1990. Like many Haitian families, her parents fled her homeland for the United States to escape the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime, leaving Danticat and her brother in Haiti for the time being. American novelist Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 19, 1969.

Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat