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Edwidge Danticat
Novelist & voice of the Haitian diaspora
She writes Haiti's pain and beauty in English — and every book is a bridge between two worlds that rarely listen to each other.
The rise
Born in Port-au-Prince and raised by an uncle and aunt after her parents emigrated, Danticat joined her family in Brooklyn at age twelve speaking only Creole and French. She studied at Brown and published her debut novel Breath, Eyes, Memory at twenty-five.