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TITLE: Edwidge Danticat
SPEAKER: Edwidge Danticat
EVENT DATE: 10/04/2003
RUNNING TIME: 33 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Edwidge Danticat at the 2003 National Book Festival
Speaker Biography: Edwidge Danticat, born in Haiti, came to the United States when she was twelve years old and published her first writings in English two years later. Her short stories have appeared in more than 25 periodicals and have been anthologized several times. She was nominated for a National Book Award and won a Pushcart Short Story Prize, as well as many fiction awards from The Caribbean Writer, Seventeen and Essence magazines. Her most recent book is "Behind the Mountains." She lives in Miami, Fla.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2003