Award-winning author at Denison

Date of Event: October 20, 2012

Posted: October 11, 2012

GRANVILLE, Ohio—Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat and her work are the focus of two events taking place at Denison University. The Denison Museum Book Club will discuss the author’s “The Farming of Bones” at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Denison Museum in Burke Hall (240 West Broadway). For more information, contact Sarah Baker at 740-587-6255 or visit www.denisonmuseum.org. Danticat herself will be present at the second event, a reading from her latest book “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work,” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, in the auditorium of Slayter Hall (200 Ridge Road). For more information, contact Marlaine Browning at 740-587-6206 or visit www.denison.edu. Both events are free and open to the public.

Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and was raised by her aunt under the dictatorial Duvalier regime until she was 12, when she immigrated to the United States. She holds a degree in literature from Barnard College and a master’s of fine arts from Brown University. She is the co-author, with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, of two books on Haitian art: “Islands on Fire” and “Odillon Pierre: Haitian Artist.” Danticat was associate producer, also with Demme, on a documentary about Haiti called “The Agronomist.”

Among other books of fiction and non-fiction, she is the author of “Brother, I’m Dying,” a nonfiction account of the deaths of her father and her uncle. This book, as well as an earlier short story collection, “Krik!Krak!,” was nominated for a National Book Award, making her one of the few writers to have been nominated for both fiction and nonfiction. She received the 2011 Harold Washington Literary Award in Chicago and was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant in 2009.

These events are co-sponsored by Creativity & Courage: Denison’s Spectrum Series 2012-13, the Beck Lecture Series: Celebrating 50 Years and the Denison Museum.

The theme of this year’s Denison’s Spectrum Lecture Series is Creativity & Courage. Danticat’s piece is a true embodiment of this mantra. The Beck Lecture Series, associated with the university’s Department of English, brings prestigious writers, such as Danticat, to campus to share their work with the Denison community.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville – Denison Museum Book Club: “The Farming of Bones,” at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Denison Museum in Burke Hall (240 West Broadway). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Sarah Baker at 740-587-6255 or visit www.denisonmuseum.org.

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison, Granville—Author reading: Edwidge Danticat will read from “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, in the auditorium of Slayter Hall (200 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marlaine Browning at 740-587-6206 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

For event inquiries:

Name: Marlaine Browning
Position Title: Academic Events Coordinator
Primary Email: browningm@denison.edu

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