Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat
Danticat, September 2019
Born	(1969-01-19) January 19, 1969 (age 56) Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Haitian-American
Education	Barnard College (BA) Brown University (MFA)
Period	1994–present
Genre	Novels, short stories
Notable works	Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) Krik? Krak! (1996) The Farming of Bones (1998) The Dew Breaker (2004)

Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [edˈwidʒ dãtiˈka]; 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. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.