Author
Edwidge Danticat
b. January 19, 1969 · United States
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer, Short story writer, University teacher
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
1
Peak rank
#14
Biography
- Born
- January 19, 1969 · Port-au-Prince
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Brown University, Barnard College, Clara Barton High School, University of the West Indies
Awards & Honours
- 1999American Book Awards
- 1999Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde
- 2004The Story Prize
- 2005Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
- 2006Great Immigrants Award
- 2008National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir and Autobiography
- 2009MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2011Langston Hughes Medal
- 2018Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- 2019National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 2020Vilcek Prize
On the Bestseller Lists
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