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Neustadt International Prize for Literature のいしゅたっとこくさいぶんがくしょう

Edition 25 (2018)

International literary awardLifetime achievementFor poetry, novels, and plays

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Edwidge Danticat えどうぃっじ・だんてぃか Winner

The 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature honored Edwidge Danticat's body of work. The prize recognized her fiction, stories, essays, and writing for younger readers, which explore Haitian history, migration and diaspora, family memory, and the shadow of political violence.

A body-of-work honor for a writer who has opened Haitian and migrant memory into a voice in world literature.

body of workHaitimigrationfamily memorypolitical violence