1999: American Book Award for The Farming of Bones The International Flaiano Prize for literature The Super Flaiano Prize for The Farming of Bones 2005: The Story Prize for The Dew Breaker 2005: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for "The Dew Breaker" 2007: National Book Award nomination for Brother, I'm Dying 2007: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying 2008: Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Brother, I'm Dying 2008: Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award for Brother, I'm Dying 2009: MacArthur Fellows Program Genius grant 2009: The Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association 2011: Langston Hughes Medal, City College of New York 2011: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Create Dangerously 2012: Smith College Honorary Degree 2013: Yale University Honorary Degree 2014: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, shortlist for Claire of the Sea Light 2014: PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award 2017: Honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from the University of the West Indies Open Campus 2017: Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2018: Presidents Award, St. Martin Book Fair. 2019: National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) winner for Everything Inside 2020: The Story Prize for Everything Inside 2020: Vilcek Foundation Prize in Literature Critical reception Edwidge Danticat is an author, creator and participant in multiple forms of storytelling. The New York Times has remarked on Danticat's ability to create a "moving portrait and a vivid illustration" as an "accomplished novelist and memoirist". The New Yorker has featured Danticat's short stories and essays on multiple occasions, and regularly reviews and critiques her work. Her writing is much anthologized, including in 2019's New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby). Danticat's creative branching out has included filmmaking, short stories, and most recently children's literature. Mama's Nightingale was written to share the story of Haitian immigrants and family separation. The book combines Danticat's storytelling abilities and work by accomplished artist Leslie Staub. Published in 2015 by Penguin Random House, the children's book tells "a touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration...with stirring illustrations...and shows how every child has the power to make a difference." A review in The New York Times said that Mama's Nightingale "will inspire not just empathy for the struggles of childhood immigration, but admiration" of Danticat and Staub, too. In other creative pursuits, Danticat has worked on two films, Poto Mitan and Girl Rising. The latter received a large amount of press, largely