Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American writer living in Miami. She won the American Book Award in 1999 for “The Farming of Bones.” Her most recent book, “Brother, I’m Dying,” is a finalist for the National Book Award.
Books

Fifteen years after her Nobel, Toni Morrison continues to inspire »

By Edwidge Danticat, October 7, 2008

Fifteen years ago this month, the novelist Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature, the second American woman and the first black American to do so. On this anniversary, we should once again celebrate her accomplishments.read more

Haiti needs your help »

By Edwidge Danticat, September 17, 2008

While most Americans have understandably been concerned about Ike’s assault on Texas, people in Haiti just a few hundred miles away are suffering an even worse fate.read more

Obama Yes »

By Edwidge Danticat , May 2008 Issue

He stirs us out of apathy and can bring ground-breaking change.Because, as you may have possibly heard, the Democratic Presidential candidates did not campaign in Miami, where I live, and they, as of read more

Don’t let new AIDS study scapegoat Haitians »

Edwidge Danticat, November 7, 2007

A new study on the early path of the AIDS epidemic threatens to stigmatize Haitians and Haitian-Americans once again.read more

Out of the Shadows »

Out of the Shadows
By Edwidge Danticat, June 2006

For once the exchange is not only between pundits and politicians but involves the concerned parties themselves, those whose children would be turned away from schools, who would be denied a doctor when sick.read more

Another Country »

Another Country
By Edwidge Danticat

November 2005

In Zora Neale Hurston’s visionary 1937 novel, Janie Crawford and her boyfriend Tea Cake, an African American day laborer, refuse to evacuate their small unsteady house before a deadly hurricane batters the Florida Everglades. read more

Asylum seekers deserve justice »

Edwidge Danticat, October 31, 2005

A year ago, my family lost its patriarch, a church in a very impoverished Haitian neighborhood lost its shepherd and America lost an opportunity to live up to its ideals. read more

90 years later, ghosts of U.S. invasion still haunt Haiti »

Edwidge Danticat, July 19, 2005

On July 28, 1915, U.S. forces invaded Haiti, launching an occupation that would last 19 years.read more

Edwidge Danticat Interview »

Edwidge Danticat
By David Barsamian

October 2003 Issue

Edwidge Danticat won the American Book Award for her 1998 novel, The Farming of Bones. Born in Haiti in 1969, she immigrated to Brooklyn in 1981 to join her parents, who had come years earlier. Her father drove a cab, and her mother was a textile worker. After her parents left Haiti, she was raised by her aunt, for whom she has great affection.read more

Why I Don't Like the Fourth of July

Unemployment Figures Underscore Need for New Stimulus

Julie Bolz,

My guest this week is Julie Bolz, a women's rights and human rights activist, who has built or repaired dozens of schools in Afghanistan.
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Shepard Fairey, Citizen Artist

The maker of the iconic “Hope” poster has turned frustration and anger into inspiration.

Changing Obama's Mindset

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.

Pete Rose Hits it Around

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Naomi Klein Interview

“We don’t have a right to be disappointed” by Obama, says the author of The Shock Doctrine.
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