Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat (born January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is an American writer.

Life

In 1971 her father emigrated to the USA , his mother followed him in 1973. Edwidge Danticat grew up with an aunt in Port-au-Prince. It was not until the age of 12 that she moved to live with her parents in Brooklyn in 1981 . In 1983 she published her first article in a newspaper describing her emigration to the USA. Danticat studied literature at Barnard College and Brown University . Today she lives and works in New York .

Danticat is one of the most famous authors of the Haitian diaspora; she writes in English. Her publications include various short stories as well as novels that have been translated into numerous languages. In addition to the experience of emigration, her work primarily takes up episodes from the history of Haiti, such as the massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic in 1937 in the novel The Sweet Seed of Tears or the Duvalier Dictatorship. Her book Brother, I'm dying is autobiographical; The story of her family is reflected in individual passages in The Prodigal Father .

2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

Works

• Breath, Eyes, Memory 1994
  • Breath, eyes, memories . Translated by Friederike Jünemann. von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1996 ISBN 3-547-72038-9
• Krik? Krak! 1995
• The Farming of Bones. 1998
  • The sweet seed of tears . Translated from Beate Thill. Claassen, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-546-00166-4
• Behind the Mountains. 2002
• After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti 2002
• The Dew Breaker. 2004
  • The lost father . Translated by Susann Urban. Book Guild , Frankfurt 2010 ISBN 978-3-7632-6350-9
• Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 2005
• Brother, I'm dying. 2007
• Claire of the Sea Light. 2014
  • No other sea . Translated by Kathrin Razum . Hanser, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-446-24900-4

Awards

• 1994 Fiction Award The Caribbean Writer
• 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, Barnard College
• 1996 National Book Award nomination for Krik? Krak!
• 1996 Best Young American Novelists for Breath, Eyes, Memory
• 1999 American Book Award for The Farming of the Bones
• 1999 Premio Flaiano for literature
• 2000 LiBeraturpreis for The Farming of Bones
• 2005 The Story Prize and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The Dew Breaker
• 2007 The National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying
• 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Brother, I'm Dying
• 2009 MacArthur Fellow
• 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• 2020 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Web links

• Literature by and about Edwidge Danticat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Edwidge Danticat at perlentaucher.de
• Review of Breath, Eyes, Memory in the project Voices of the Gaps, University of Minnesota