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Edwige Danticat es una escritora haitiana afincada en Estados Unidos.

La crio su tía hasta que con 12 años se fue a vivir con sus padres a Brooklyn . La revista Granta la citó entre los « 20 mejores americanos jóvenes » en 1996.[1]​ y fue finalista del prestigioso "National Book Award" en 1995 con “Krik? Krak!”, y galardonada en 2008 por el "National Book Critics Circle Award", con “Brother, I am dying”.

"Nacida en Puerto Príncipe en 1969, Edwidge Danticat vivirá en carne propia la historia reciente de Haití. Sus padres emigraron cuando aún era una niña y debió quedarse en casa de sus tíos hasta la adolescencia, momento en que se reúne con su familia en Brooklyn. Sin embargo, el hecho de vivir en un barrio con fuerte componente haitiano la mantiene dentro de las fronteras culturales de su patria. La emigración como destino último del haitiano atraviesa con filo las tres historias que se analizarán, y aparece ligada a la muerte y la desmemoria, una muerte y una desmemoria que son representadas en su sentido material pero llevan un simbolismo implícito que hace pensar en la separación de la tierra natal como una suerte de suicidio identitario".[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 19. enero 1969
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Edwidge Danticat: Frases en inglés

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

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Edwidge Danticat libro Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Fuente: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”

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Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Fuente: Krik? Krak!

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

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Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones

Fuente: The Farming of Bones

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

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“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”

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“When you write, it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”

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“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”

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Edwidge Danticat libro Breath, Eyes, Memory

Fuente: Breath, Eyes, Memory

“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

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Edwidge Danticat libro Brother, I'm Dying

Fuente: Brother, I'm Dying

“… women, brave as stars at dawn”

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Edwidge Danticat libro Breath, Eyes, Memory

Fuente: Breath, Eyes, Memory

“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”

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Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Fuente: Krik? Krak!

“Well, I think that when I’m writing about Haiti, I’m just writing one long, ongoing story. But I really did feel, like a lot of people did, that after the earthquake, there were suddenly two Haitis: the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So I feel that I’ve been writing about the first one much longer. And writing about the earthquake… it’s been such a short period of time and it’s still such a raw experience that the few things that I’ve written about it, I feel like I’ve written them to process it myself.”

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On how she views Haiti since a major earthquake in in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews

“In some of the earlier work, I liked to keep readers guessing: one story asked a question, and another resolved it. For the stories I’m working on now—both the new ones and the older ones I’m revisiting—I want to wring everything out. That way, I don’t have to write separate stories for every character who surprises me.”

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On how her short story writing style has evolved in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews

“Along with plot, I am always thinking about structure. Sometimes the story guides you to the best structure for its telling. Using letters seemed like the best way to tell this story. When writing these letters, the characters are selecting what they want to tell. In this case, the woman is writing in a way that would not endanger her or her family if her letters were found by the military authorities who took over the country, and the man is writing with the urgency of someone who could die at any minute while at sea.”

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On using an epistolary form for her short story “Children of the Sea” in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews