Edwidge Danticat

  • Birthday: 15. January 1969
  • Birthplace: Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Biography

Edwidge Danticat is the author of BREATH, EYES, MEMORY; KRIK? KRAK!; THE DEW BREAKER, and BROTHER, I'M DYING. *This site is maintained by the author's publisher Knopf/Vintage Books. Continue to check here for upates on book tours, review and news.
Biography
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the first Story Prize. She lives in Miami.
Favorite Books
Books...
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) 
Krik? Krak! (1996) 
The Farming of Bones (1998) 
Behind the Mountains (2002, part of the First Person Fiction series) 
The Dew Breaker (2004) 
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 (2005, part of The Royal Diaries series) 
Brother, I'm Dying (2007) 
The Butterfly's Way (anthology editor) 

Awards...
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 Best Young American Novelists for Breath, Eyes, Memory by GRANTA 
Lila-Wallace-Reader's Digest Grant 
1999 American Book Award for The Farming of the Bones 
The International Flaiano Prize for literature 
The Super Flaiano Prize for The Farming of the Bones 
2005 The Story Prize for "The Dew Breaker" 
2008 The National Book Critics Circle Award for "Brother, I'm Dying"
 
Actress (4 credits)
 2012Stones in the Sun 
Yannick
 2009Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (TV Movie) 
Narrator
 2004The Manchurian Candidate 
Rosie's Cousin
 1998Beloved 
The Thirty Women
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 2003The Agronomist (Documentary) (executive producer) 
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 2007The Price of Sugar (Documentary) (special thanks) 
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 2010-2013Tavis Smiley (TV Series) 
Herself - Guest / Herself
- Episode dated 14 October 2013 (2013) ... Herself - Guest
- Episode dated 1 November 2010 (2010) ... Herself
 2013The Cycle (TV Series) 
Herself
- Episode dated 22 March 2013 (2013) ... Herself
 2013Girl Rising (Documentary) 
Writer
 2012Let Fury Have the Hour (Documentary) 
Herself
 2010-2011Democracy Now! (TV Series) 
Herself
- Episode dated 12 January 2011 (2011) ... Herself
- Episode dated 11 November 2010 (2010) ... Herself
- Episode dated 13 January 2010 (2010) ... Herself
 2010Charlie Rose (TV Series) 
Herself - Guest
- Episode dated 14 January 2010 (2010) ... Herself - Guest
 200860 Minutes (TV Series documentary) 
Herself - Joseph Dantica's Niece (segment "Detention in America")
- The Price of Bananas/Detention in America/Alec Baldwin (2008) ... Herself - Joseph Dantica's Niece (segment "Detention in America")
 2006Edwidge Danticat Visits Her Haitian Roots (Video documentary short) 
 1999Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (Documentary) 
Herself

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