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PANEL: Memory and Place - A round-table discussion featuring Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory, 1994, Soho Press), Martin Doerry (My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944, 2004, Bloomsbury), Alberto Manguel (With Borges: A Memoir, 2004, Thomas Allen & Sons), Alicia Borinsky (All Night Movie, 2002, Hydra Books), and Pico Iyer (Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign, 2004, Knopf). Recorded at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. . READING I: Edwidge Dandicat…

Illustration of Haitian smoking pipe

Illustration of Haitian smoking pipe

Illustration of Haitian smoking pipe

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Edwidge Danticat, an American writer originally from Haiti. She made her reputation as the bestselling author of The Dew Breaker and Krik? Krak! and now she has written a powerful and moving memoir called, Brother, I'm Dying.

Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. She's become one of America's most celebrated new novelists at an astonishingly young age. Her latest book is called The Farming of Bones.

Haitian-Canadian-American novelist Myriam Chancy talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her powerful new book, What Storm, What Thunder. Multilayered and lyrical, it features a variety of inter-connected characters, each with a moving story. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

"Aftershock: Chile in Transition" Pt. 3, with Isabel Allende. Our Chile series continues with best-selling novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende. Her new book takes place in another earthquake zone: Haiti - 200 years ago, during its revolutionary struggle. Island Beneath the Sea is published by HarperCollins.

From Haiti and the United States, Edwidge Danticat. It's been almost ten years since her last novel, but she now has a moving new book, Claire of the Sea Light, set in a Haitian fishing village before the earthquake.