A powerful and widely celebrated voice in contemporary literature, Haitian-American bestselling author Edwidge Danticat has written 15 award winning books, ranging from adult fiction and children’s and young adult literature to memoir, essays, travel narrative, and literary criticism.
Join Danticat for a reading from her latest books We’re Alone (2024) and Everything Inside (2019), a stunning collection of powerful, emotionally absorbing stories that tackle the complexities of diaspora. Everything Inside was named one of best books of 2019 by NPR, Time, BuzzFeed, and Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Story Prize, making Danticat the first two-time winner of the award. Danticat will take questions from the audience and sign books after the reading, held in honor of the exhibition Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti.
A film screening of Madan Sara, which documents the stories of women who work to make Haiti’s economy run, follows at 2:00pm. The film begins and ends with Danticat reading from her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994).
About the presenter
Edwidge Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora studies at Columbia University. She is the author of 17 books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, and has received numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Neustadt Prize, and two Story Prizes.
Made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
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