Edwidge Danticat is that this 12 months’s winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence within the Brief Story, a lifetime achievement honor named for the late author Bernard Malamud.
Danticat, a Haitian-American writer who writes typically about reminiscence and id, is understood for her novel-in-stories “The Dew Breaker” and for such collections as “Krik? Krak!” and “The whole lot Inside,” which in 2020 gained the Story Prize for excellent quick fiction.
“A lot of my quick tales pay homage to the oral custom I used to be steeped in as a toddler in Haiti and as an immigrant in america,” Danticat, 54, mentioned in a press release this week. “The quick story has additionally been a novel house for me to experiment, discover, and develop as a storyteller, which makes this award much more gratifying.”
Earlier winners of the Malamud prize embrace George Saunders, Jhumpa Lahiri and Yiyun Li.
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