Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat ( born January 19, 1969 in Port-au -Prince, Haiti ) is an American writer. 1971 her father emigrated to the United States, the mother followed him in 1973. Edwidge Danticat followed them until 1981 at the age of 12 years in Brooklyn, she grew up with an aunt.
In 1983 she published her first article in a newspaper, in which she describes her emigration to the United States. Danticat studied literature at Barnard College and Brown University. Today she lives and works in New York. Danticat is one of the most famous authors of the Haitian diaspora. Her publications include various short stories and novels that have been translated into Korean, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Swedish. Her work engages addition to the emigration experience va Episodes in the history of Haiti as the massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic in 1937 or the Duvalier dictatorship. Your most recently published book, " Brother, I'm dying" is autobiographical.
Works
- Breath, Eyes, Memory 1994, dt breath, eyes, memories 1996
- Krik? Krak! 1995
- The Farming of Bones 1998, dt, sweet seed of tears 1999
- Behind the Mountains 2002
- After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti 2002
- The Dew Breaker 2004 from the English by Susann Urban The Prodigal Father, Edition Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-7632-6350-9
- Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 2005
- Brother, I'm dying in 2007