Edwidge Danticat

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• Themes
• Diasporic politics 
• Mother-daughter relationships 
• National identity

• She visited the school last year
• From Hati
• By the time she was four years old, her mother and father had moved to the United States, leaving Danticat and her brother behind with an aunt and uncle. She joined her parents in 1981, but, with her Creole language and Haitian dress and manners, she found adapting to life and school in the United States difficult
• series of interconnected stories about a Haitian immigrant who had tortured and murdered dissidents during the repressive rule of Franƈois Duvalier. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying(2007), won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
• Won multiple awards
• January 19, 1969
• centrality of the mother-daughter relationship to self-identity and self-expression [v]. Sophie's experiences mirror those of her mother's Martine.
• 1994 Fiction Award The Caribbean Writer
• 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, Barnard College
• Pushcart Short Story Prize for "Between the Pool and the Gardenias"
• National Book Award nomination for Krik? Krak!
• 1996 Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists[17]
• Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Grant
• 1999 American Book Award for The Farming of Bones
• The International Flaiano Prize for literature
• The Super Flaiano Prize for The Farming of Bones
• 2005 The Story Prize for The Dew Breaker
• 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award[18] for "The Dew Breaker"
• 2007 National Book Award nomination for Brother, I'm Dying
• 2007 The National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying
• 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Brother, I'm Dying
• 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program Genius grant
• 2011 Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York
• 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Create Dangerously
• 2012 Smith College Honorary Degree
• 2013 Yale University Honorary Degree[19]
• 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, shortlist for Claire of the Sea Light[20]
• 2017 Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from the University of the West Indies Open Campus[21][22]
• 2017 Neustadt International Prize for Literature[23]

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