Edwidge Danticat

The Word: Black Authors On Power Of Reading And Writing

Marita Golden | Posted 05.25.2011

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I knew I wanted to interview a diverse and celebrated group of African Americans writers because they have been so important to the vitality of American literature.

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What Can the Power of Art Accomplish?

Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Haitian Art, Arvo Pärt, Edwidge Danticat, R.E.M., Michael Stipe, Haiti, Haiti Reconstruction, Power of Art, Create Dangerously, Haitian Cultural Foundation, Arts News

Several themes have been dancing around inside my head lately. Tiptoeing like a ballerina is the power of art to transform us.

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"I Used To Love The Rain" And Other New Fears Of Haitian Children

Edwidge Danticat | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, I had the honor of traveling to Port-au-Prince and reading to a group of these children "Eight Days," a picture book I wrote about the earthquake in Haiti.

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Hope In Haiti's Rubble

NPR | By Edwidge Danticat | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danticat has written a children's book about a 7-year-old boy named Junior who gets buried in the rubble of his Haitian home during the quake and is r...

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Haitian Women: Enter At Center Stage

Taina Bien-Aime | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even before the earthquake, a shocking 70% of Haitian women and girls surveyed claimed to have experienced physical, sexual, political or psychological violence.

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Haiti: TPS and the Coming Negativity

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011

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I encourage Haitians to claim their identity as the posterity of the first black republic, not as descendants of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It is not political strength, hurricanes, or earthquakes that define us.

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Haiti: The Literature From 'The New York Review Of Books'

The New York Review of Books | Madison Smartt Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

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'A Hidden Haitian World', Madison Smartt Bell The New York Review of Books Massacre River, by René Philoctète, translated from the French by Linda ...

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Voicing Haiti: Edwidge Danticat

Laura Baudo Sillerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we all shudder through news of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we've also been hearing from the literary voices, that for many of us, first brought Haiti alive.

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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Genius: a Talk With Edwidge Danticat

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.25.2011

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"When [my first novel] was just published, people walked up to me and told me that someone who worked at their house is Haitian," Danticat said. "Now there are a number of people telling me that their doctor is Haitian."

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