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Edwige Danticat, née le 19 janvier 1969 à Port-au-Prince, est une écrivaine américaine d'origine haïtienne.

Parmi ses romans, on peut citer : La récolte douce des larmes ou Le briseur de rosée. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. janvier 1969
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Edwidge Danticat: 13 citations0 J'aime

Edwidge Danticat: Citations en anglais

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

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Edwidge Danticat livre Breath, Eyes, Memory

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Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”

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Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Source: Krik? Krak!

“Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.”

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Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones

Source: The Farming of Bones

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

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“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”

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“When you write, it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”

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“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”

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Edwidge Danticat livre Breath, Eyes, Memory

Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory

“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”

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Edwidge Danticat livre Brother, I'm Dying

Source: Brother, I'm Dying

“… women, brave as stars at dawn”

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Edwidge Danticat livre Breath, Eyes, Memory

Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory

“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”

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Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Source: Krik? Krak!

“Well, I think that when I’m writing about Haiti, I’m just writing one long, ongoing story. But I really did feel, like a lot of people did, that after the earthquake, there were suddenly two Haitis: the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So I feel that I’ve been writing about the first one much longer. And writing about the earthquake… it’s been such a short period of time and it’s still such a raw experience that the few things that I’ve written about it, I feel like I’ve written them to process it myself.”

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On how she views Haiti since a major earthquake in in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews

“In some of the earlier work, I liked to keep readers guessing: one story asked a question, and another resolved it. For the stories I’m working on now—both the new ones and the older ones I’m revisiting—I want to wring everything out. That way, I don’t have to write separate stories for every character who surprises me.”

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On how her short story writing style has evolved in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews

“Along with plot, I am always thinking about structure. Sometimes the story guides you to the best structure for its telling. Using letters seemed like the best way to tell this story. When writing these letters, the characters are selecting what they want to tell. In this case, the woman is writing in a way that would not endanger her or her family if her letters were found by the military authorities who took over the country, and the man is writing with the urgency of someone who could die at any minute while at sea.”

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On using an epistolary form for her short story “Children of the Sea” in “An Interview | Edwidge Danticat” http://www.bkreview.org/fall-2018/an-interview-with-edwidge-danticat/ in The Brooklyn Review (Fall 2018) <br class="br">Interviews

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