Literature picked up the subject of displacement and language through a debate on Saturday between Ms. Morrison and three writers : Edwige Danticat , who now lives in the United States and writes in English about her native Haiti ; Michael Ondaatje , who was born in Sri Lanka , educated in Britain and lives in Canada ; and Boubacar Boris Diop , a Senegalese novelist who writes in French and in his Wolof mother tongue .
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