Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to live with her parents in Brooklyn. She studied French literature at Barnard College and received her M.F.A. from Brown University. Her work has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), mehr anzeigen her first novel and master's thesis, garnered Danticat a Granta Regional Award for Best Young American Novelist and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection, a singular honor. Her collection of short stories Krik? Krak! (1995) was nominated for the National Book Award. Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (2001) — Herausgeber — 65 Exemplare
The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon Anthology) (2000) 24 Exemplare
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Pour l'amour de Claire: Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Simone Arous (Littérature Etrangère) (French Edition) (2014) 1 Exemplar
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The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Mitwirkender — 345 Exemplare
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Mitwirkender — 175 Exemplare
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 152 Exemplare
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Mitwirkender — 138 Exemplare
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Mitwirkender — 113 Exemplare
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Mitwirkender — 97 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 93 Exemplare
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Mitwirkender — 86 Exemplare
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Mitwirkender — 73 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Vorwort; Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (2019) — Mitwirkender — 47 Exemplare
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2003) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
The Shape of Water [2006 film] — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1969-01-19
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Haiti
USA - Geburtsort
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Wohnorte
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- Barnard College (BA|1990|French literature)
Brown University (MFA|1993|Creative writing) - Berufe
- author
- Organisationen
- New York University (instructor, creative writing)
University of Miami (instructor, creative writing)
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation (recipient of on-going grant) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- One of "20 people in their twenties who will make a difference" (Harpers Bazaar)
One of "30 under 30" people to watch (New York Times magazine)
One of the "15 Gutsiest Women of the Year" (Jane magazine)
Woman of Achievement Award (1995 ∙ Barnard College)
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2004)
Benjamin H. Danks Award (Fiction ∙ 2005) (Zeige alle 9)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2018)
MacArthur Fellow (2009) - Kurzbiographie
- Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969. She came to the United States when she was twelve years old and, only two years later, published her first writings in English. She holds an undergraduate degree is in French literature from Barnard College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown Unversity. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Edwidge Danticat's short stories have appeared in 25 periodicals. She won a 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize as well as fiction awards from several magazines. In addition to her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, winning wide acclaim, her book of short stories, Krik? Krak!, was chosen as a National Book Award finalist in 1995.
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Das Buch schildert am exemplarischen Beispiel dieser Frauen die Problematik eines Volkes unterdrückter Frauen insgesamt. Trotz aller Liebe, die zweifellos zwischen Sophie und ihrer Mutter besteht, kann Martine nicht anders, als Sophie ebenfalls schwer zu traumatisieren. Sie selbst zerbricht an ihren Verletzungen. Ein selbstbestimmtes Leben ist für Frauen in Haiti aufgrund der ungeschriebenen Gesetze nicht möglich, wie an den dort lebenden Frauen dargestellt wird. Eine auch emotionale Lösung aus diesem System wird wahrscheinlich nur Sophies Tochter Brigitte erreichen. Doch sie muss den Preis bezahlen, dass sie nicht in Haiti, sondern in Amerika aufwächst.
Mein Bookcrossing-Exemplar trägt eine Widmung der Autorin für Krimtango „In Sisterhood“. In Schwesternschaft möchte auch ich dieses Buch empfehlen, denn wir dürfen nicht vergessen, dass es nicht allen Frauen auf der Welt möglich ist, frei zu leben, nicht einmal hier in Europa.… (mehr)