Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Edwidge Danticat has won this year's PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. It's a lifetime lifetime achievement ...

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 ...

Something magical happens when prize-winning novelist Edwidge Danticat strings words together. From the most trivial details to breathtaking moments of enormous gravity, Danticat uses words as charms ...

Edwidge Danticat writes this about Haiti, the country where she was born - quote, "I am from a place that constantly evokes nostalgia in the people who have seen, lived and loved it before. This ...

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 ...

Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Most of the characters in Edwidge Danticat's new collection are Haitian American, and Haiti is often in their hearts and on their minds. Danticat... Edwidge Danticat: 'Whether Or Not We Belong Is Not ...

In this week’s issue, Edwidge Danticat writes a Comment about her cousin Maxo, who was killed in the Haiti earthquake. Maxo was mentioned briefly in “Marie Micheline,” Danticat’s 2007 Personal History ...

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 ...