The following lecture was delivered to an audience at the University of California Edwidge Danticat: Stories of Haiti
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Haitian-American Author, Edwidge Danticat Won the the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship
Posted on September 22, 2009 by haitisheri1804
Haiti-born writer Edwidge Danticat has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship, which comes with $500,000. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com Miami writer Edwidge Danticat was holding her 9-month-old daughter, Leila, while trying to read the computer screen when the phone rang. “Are you sitting down?” the caller asked. “Yes. I am holding my baby,” she said. [...]
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Edwidge Danticat Wins Nicolas Guillen Prize
Posted on June 12, 2009 by haitisheri1804
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:33:33 -0700 Subject: Nicolas Guillen Prize From: caribphil2@gmail.com To: caribphil2@gmail.com Dear CPA members and friends, I am delighted to inform you that the winner of the 2009 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Prize is Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is a prominent writer who was born in Haiti and came to the United [...]
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