For the third time, a book by Professor Edwidge Danticat has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Awards, according to a story from National Public Radio.
“Does "the third time's the charm" apply to prestigious literary awards?” NPR’s story asked. “Edwidge Danticat will have the opportunity to find out. She's now a three-time finalist for a National Book Award, which were announced Tuesday morning. Danticat's novel, Dèy, is about a woman who witnesses a violent gun attack in a Miami mall.”
Danticat's short story collection “Krik? Krak!” was a finalist for the prize in 1995, and her book “Brother, I'm Dying,” was a non-fiction finalist in 2007.
Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities and a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies. A contributor to The New Yorker since 1999, she is the author of 19 books, including "Breath, Eyes, Memory," an Oprah Book Club selection, "The Farming of Bones," an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories, "The Dew Breaker," "Claire of the Sea Light," and "The Art of Death," a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, "After the Dance," and two essay collections, "Create Dangerously" and "We're Alone.”
“We’re Alone” was recently named a finalist in the non-fiction category of the National Book Critics Circle awards, as well as in the creative nonfiction category of the Firecracker Awards, given annually by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses.
In March she received the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In April the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture honored her with five others for outstanding achievements in their respective fields of arts, culture, literature, and scholarship.
