Edwidge Danticat has won this year’s PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. It’s a lifetime lifetime achievement award. The Haitian-American author often writes about memory and identity ...

This week in the magazine, Edwidge Danticat writes about the earthquake in Haiti. Today, Danticat answered readers’ questions in a live conversation. A transcript of their discussion follows. THE NEW ...

“We’re Alone,” a new collection of essays by the acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Edwidge Danticat, opens with an English translation of lines by the Haitian poet Roland Chassagne. Danticat ...

So too, in “The Art of Death,” Danticat attempts to convey her mother’s state — as one that has long been wrestling between at least two poles: “In Haitian Creole, when someone is said to be lòt bò ...

Edwidge Danticat has been wowing readers since she broke onto the scene with her first book, Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994. Now this famous Haitian author’s newest, 16th novel, Untwine, a tragic and ...

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Twenty years after emigrating to America, Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory) returns to her native Haiti and the coastal village of Jacmel to take part in her first Carnival. But she's not without ...

As the death toll from Hurricane Matthew continues to rise to more 330, across the country some 15,000 have been displaced and 350,000 more are in need of assistance. The storm knocked out most ...

Some creative writing teachers ban beginning fiction writers from killing off their characters. Death can be too easy a plot point for those just learning about creating conflict and resolution in ...