Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat
Danticat, September 2019
Danticat, September 2019
Born (1969-01-19) January 19, 1969 (age 55)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
OccupationWriter
NationalityHaitian-American
Education
Period1994–present
GenreNovels, short stories
Notable worksBreath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
Krik? Krak! (1996)
The Farming of Bones (1998)
The Dew Breaker (2004)

Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969)[1] is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. As of the fall of 2023, she will be the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

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