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Gentle Reader
Neustadt
International Prize for Literature hosts a shortlist of nine authors, with a
designated novel to testify and bear witness to their oeuvre of work. The
shortlisted writers were:
Emmanuel
Carre – France
Aracelis
Girmay – United States
Mohsin
Hamid – Pakistan
Jamaica
Kincaid – Antigua and Barbuda/United States
Lyudmila
Ulitskaya – Russia
Patricia
Smith – United States
Edwidge
Danticat – Haiti/United States
Yusef
Komunyakaa – American
Amitav
Ghosh – India
Of
these nine writers, today the Neustadt International Prize for Literature Judges
announced their decision, as to who would be the Laureate for two-thousand and
eighteen is: the Haitian/American writer, Edwidge Danticat.
Edwidge
Danticat is an author of novels, short stories, young adult fiction/children’s
literature, travel commentary, essays and film scripts. Her work experiments
with structure and format; while also detailing the history of her Caribbean
homeland, with its turbulent political situations, environmental disasters, and
human rights issues; to the difficulties of living as an immigrant in a new
country and subsequent new world. In a time when more people are calling for
borders to be closed, and refugees and immigrants to be shut out, Edwidge
Danticat is a voice in a chorus who expresses the unique cultural relationship immigrants
and refugees have when dealing with the complicated issues of cultural identity
and melting into the new society. In a time when ideals like fraternity are
being questioned, and humanity is leaving each other out in the cold, Edwidge
Danticat, reassures and implores people to reconsider their perspective and
open their borders, open their doors, and practice humanistic though and
approach towards their fellow man.
Congratulations
Edwidge Danticat!
Thank-you
For Reading Gentle Reader
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M.
Mary
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