Edwidge Danticat





Edwidge Danticat

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

gender
female

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Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.

Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters.


Average rating: 3.87 · 27,340 ratings · 2,542 reviews · 43 distinct works · Similar authors
Breath, Eyes, Memory
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 11,865 ratings — published 1994 — 25 editions
The Farming of Bones
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,277 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions
Krik? Krak!
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The Dew Breaker
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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

“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!

“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”
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