| edwidge danticat • • • • zale writer-in-residence:17 • • • • 8-12 october 01
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• • • • • • • • • • • • events Reading by Edwidge Danticat Meet Edwidge Danticat Events listed above are free and open to the public, and reception and book signings will follow each event. In addition to sitting for a public interview and delivering a reading, the Zale Writer participates in creative writing, literature, and other liberal arts classes; as well as meeting with students in less formal settings. • • • • • • • • • • • • |
| Since the publication of her debut work Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994, Edwidge Danticat has won acclaim as one of America's brightest, most graceful, and vibrant young writers. Her work evokes the powerful aesthetic and narrative traditions of her native Haiti and in the process records the history, triumphs, and wisdom of its people. Paule Marshall has said of Danticat, "A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice."
Like the protagonist of Breath, Eyes, Memory, Danticat at the age of twelve left her birthplace for New York to reunite with her parents. She earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, and an MFA from Brown University. She is the author of Krik? Krak!, a volume of short stories nominated for the National Book Award, as well as a second novel, The Farming of Bones. She edited the recently published volume The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States. Breath, Eyes, Memory won a Granta Regional Award for the Best Young American Novelists, a Pushcart Prize, fiction awards from Essence and Seventeen magazines, and inclusion in Oprah's Book Club. Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference, and was featured in a New York Times Magazine article that named "30 Under 30" creative people to watch. Jane magazine named her one of the "15 Gutsiest Women of the Year." |
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