In this 2 minute video, Danticat speaks about her childhood and her writing. This video was created for the Vilcek Foundation. Danticat was the receipient of the 2020 Vilcek Prize in Literature. The Vilcek Prizes are awarded to immigrants with a legacy of major accomplishments in the biomedical sciences and the arts and humanities.
What role did your family and community have in shaping you as a writer? Danticat answers this question in this 4 minute video for The American Writers Museum. This video clip is part of the museum's temporary exhibit My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today.
Edwidge Danticat and Aja Monet at Reading & Conversations event at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, March 2019 - Danticat is introduced by poet Aja Monet and then reads from of excerpt an excerpt from "Without Inspection," the last story in her 2019 short story collection Everything Inside. The audio for this event as well as the video for the conversation between Aja Monet and Edwidge Danticat can be found at the Lannan website.
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads an excerpt from her novel Home.