Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work - Paperback

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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work - Paperback

by Edwidge Danticat
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by Edwidge Danticat (Author)

A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year

A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards--now with a new preface by the author

"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."--Create Dangerously

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus' lecture, "Create Dangerously," and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite--or because of--the horrors that drove them from their homelands.

She writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. She also eulogizes an aunt who guarded her family's homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as an undocumented immigrant, and a Haitian woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture.

Create Dangerously is an eloquent and moving expression of Danticat's belief that immigrant artists are obliged to bear witness when their countries of origin are suffering from violence, oppression, poverty, and tragedy.

Author Biography

Edwidge Danticat is an acclaimed, bestselling author of many books. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for both autobiography and fiction, has been a finalist for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction, and has twice won the Story Prize, among many other accolades. Her books include Brother, I'm Dying; Everything Inside, a Reese's Book Club selection; Claire of the Sea Light; The Dew Breaker; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; The Farming of Bones; and Krik? Krak! A MacArthur Fellow, Danticat is the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Number of Pages: 200
Dimensions: 0.54 x 8 x 5.25 IN
Publication Date: November 25, 2025
ISBN9780691278087
Author Edwidge Danticat
PublisherPrinceton University Press
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times notable book; Brother, I'm Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami.

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