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Literary Partners Program: Kweli International Literary Festival

Edwidge Danticat Closing Keynote

Sep 17, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Edwidge Danticat

Author Edwidge Danticat delivers the closing keynote for the Kweli International Literary Festival.

This event is made possible through the Poets House Literary Partners program.


Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Everything Inside, winner of The Story Prize, The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist. A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere.



Admission Free and open to the public; registration link below