Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian novelist and short story writer.
Prominent themes in her novel: National Identity, Mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics.
Danticat also penned Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010), a collection of essays concerning the hazards of writing about Haiti while living in the United States
As an immigrant teenager, Edwidge's disorientation in her new surroundings was a source of discomfort for her, and she turned to literature for solace.
She said: "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses"
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