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Thursday, September 06, 2007
Edwidge DANTICAT
HAITIAN-BORN novelist and short-story writer Edwidge Danticat in her first major work of nonfiction, a family memoir, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), recounts the sad story of her father and her uncle Joseph. Danticat is the author of The Dew Breaker (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), her most recent collection of stories.
I am a senior book and magazine editor who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love books and the freedom to read whatever makes me happy: both fiction and nonfiction. I have always been obsessed with the relationship between literature and life and its role in society. As an editor, I have edited many books, but never get tired of the grand adventure of reading. We must never underestimate the redeeming power of fiction in our lives. The idea that there is something out there that is far, far bigger than our lives sustains some of our lives. I am the co-editor of URBAN ODYSSEYS: KL STORIES.
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