Professor Edwidge Danticat’s collection of essays has been named a finalist for two literary awards.
“We’re Alone” has been 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.
Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities and a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
"We're Alone" is a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti. The essays gathered in "We’re Alone" include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.
Danticat is the author of 18 books, including "Breath, Eyes, Memory," an Oprah Book Club selection, "Krik? Krak!," a National Book Award finalist, "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.”
Read the Barnard Magazine story on the National Book Critics Circle awards
Read the news release on the Firecracker Awards from the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses
