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Haiti, U.S.A.: Danticat Cops Guillén Prize

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 @ 13:00 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Haiti, U.S.A.
Topics:: Diaspora, Ethnicity, Literature
Languages:: English

Repeating Islands reports that Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat has won the 2009 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Guillén Prize.

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