National Book Critics Circle

She has won many awards and fellowships, including four Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim, a Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Lennon Literary Fellowship, a Robert Creeley Award, a Texas Award, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Arab American National Museum.

and the National Book Critics Circle.

In 2019, the Poetry Foundation designated Naomi as their Young People's Poet Laureate.

To find out more, check out the Poetry Foundation website.

My gratitude is bigger than the sky.

My guest today is Edwidge Danticat, author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, 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, The Dewbreaker, a Penn Faulkner Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner, Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Oprah's Book Club Selection, and Crick Crack, also a National Book Award finalist.

Her new novel, Day, is shortlisted for the National Book Award.

This episode was recorded live at the Arts Campus at Willits, also known as Taka'a in Basalt, Colorado.

He is a professor of clinical medical psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, an adjunct clinical professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College, a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale Medical School, a distinguished associate of the Center for Family Research at Cambridge University, and the former president of PEN America.

His book, Far From the Tree, Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, along with more than 25 other national and international awards, has been published in 24 languages, and was listed by the New York Times as one of the 100 best books of the 21st century.

His book, The Noonday Demon, An Atlas of Depression, revised and reissued in 2015, is a landmark exploration of the landscape of mental illness.

Published in 30 languages, honored with a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.