Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Haiti Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A Port-au-Prince-born writer whose fiction and memoirs explore Haitian life and migration to the United States.
Danticat moved to New York aged twelve. Her novel Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) and the memoir Brother, I'm Dying (2007) won wide acclaim, and she received a MacArthur fellowship in 2009.
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