EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Edwidge Danticat (1969– ) – Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, her parents moved to New York when she was very young. Her collection of short stories about Haiti and Haiti-Americans before democracy, Krik?Krak! (1995) was a National Book Award finalist. She received the Pushcart Short Story prize that same year, and has received fiction awards from Carribean Writer, Seventeen, and Essence magazines. She has a B.A. in French Literature from Barnard College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown University. Other works include Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Farming of Bones (1998), and Behind the Mountains (2002).

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