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Edwidge Danticat

1969 - Today

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Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwidge Danticat has received more than 426,279 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Edwidge Danticat is the 6,352nd most popular writer (down from 5,694th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 58th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Haitian Writer.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edwidge Danticat ranks 6,352 out of 5,755. Before her are Zehra Doğan, Tom Bergeron, Lotta Lotass, Sipan Shiraz, Cleanth Brooks, and Yiyun Li. After her are Han Han, Rita Dove, Scott Lynch, Tom Holland, Koenraad Elst, and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Edwidge Danticat ranks 780. Before her are Mohamed Suleiman, Masta Killa, Patrick Chila, Roberto Solozábal, Lance Storm, and Akinori Mikami. After her are Horst Heldt, Irek Zinnurov, Keisuke Makino, Glen Drover, Lü Lin, and Manoj Bajpayee.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat ranks 67 out of 80. Before her are Joseph Jouthe (1961), Bruny Surin (1967), Jean-Henry Céant (1956), Garcelle Beauvais (1966), Meta Golding (1971), and Pras (1972). After her are Jean-Jacques Pierre (1981), Bermane Stiverne (1978), Laurent Lamothe (1972), Jean Pascal (1982), Adonis Stevenson (1977), and Wilde-Donald Guerrier (1989).

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Among WRITERS In Haiti

Among writers born in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat ranks 5. Before her are Frankétienne (1936), René Depestre (1926), Jacques Roumain (1907), and Dany Laferrière (1953).

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