Edwidge Danticat, presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures January 8, 2007

Benaroya Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, January 8, 2007
Underwritten by University Book Store

$25 - Main Floor: General admission
$20 - Balcony: General admission
$10 - Student/Under 25 (balcony): Open seating in the balcony tiers. Please note: you must mail or fax a copy of your driver's license or student ID in order for us to process your order.

Haitian author Edwidge Danticat is fluent—and eloquent—in three languages. Born in Port-au-Prince, she was raised in the Creole culture, took an honors degree in French literature, and writes stunning fiction in English. She published her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), at twenty-four, only twelve years after immigrating to New York, "completely between languages." Infusing her novels, short stories, and essays is the rich narrative tradition of her Haitian ancestors, who, Danticat says, blended the European languages of their enslavers with African dialects to invent "a language from which colorful phrases blossomed to fit the desperate circumstances."

Selected Works
Krik? Krak! (1991)
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
The Farming of Bones (1999)
The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, editor (2001)
Behind the Mountains, young adult (2002)
The Dew Breaker (2004)

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