Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones; The Dew Breaker; Create Dangerously; and Claire of the Sea Light. She has also written four books for young adults and children, and a travel narrative. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a National Book Award finalist and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2007. She was a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. This year she will publish a picture book, Mama’s Nightingale, and a young adult novel, Untwine.
Edwidge Danticat
Articles by Edwidge Danticat
Tuesday January 23
The Real Worlds
Many of us who come from the Caribbean are astounded when people speak of the “implausibility” of magical realism. For in our worldview, as in our much-loved Gabriel García Márquez’s, a lot of what is considered magically realistic seems to us much more realistic than magical. Of course a woman can live inside her cat
Tuesday September 26
Does It Work?
MIAMI—A few years ago, as I worked on a documentary film about torture survivors in exile from my native Haiti, I met a young woman who under questioning by a military officer was slapped until she became deaf in one ear, was forced to chew and swallow a campaign poster, and was kicked so hard
Saturday December 3
November 24, 2004 | A Very Haitian Story
Miami—On Sunday, Oct. 24, United Nations troops and Haitian police forces launched a military operation in Bel-Air, one of the poorest and most volatile neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Their stated goal was to oust armed gangs, some of which are still loyal to Haiti’s deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. During the clash that followed, United