# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwidge-danticat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:21.709Z

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name: "Edwidge Danticat"
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description: "Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Her work has dealt with themes of national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. In 2023, she was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University."
tagline: "Novelist, short story writer, memoirist"
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birthDate: "1969-01-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump