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Esi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist. [1] She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018).
Esi Edugyan is a Ghanaian Canadian novelist whose work has become an influential part of the Canadian literary canon. Imbued with an interest in Black histories and the Black diaspora, her novels explore ideas of nation and belonging — to new and old cultures and countries, to “here” and “away,” to the present and the past.
At the beginning of Esi Edugyan's new book Washington Black, it seems the narrator is not going anywhere. It's the 1830s, and the narrator, a boy named George Washington Black, is enslaved on the...
Esi Edugyan, Chair of 2023 Booker Prize judges, is the internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, among others – and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Esi Edugyan relates the astonishing adventures of Washington Black, whose escape from the brutal cane plantations of Barbados was only the beginning.
Esi Edugyan (Chair) is the internationally bestselling author of Washington Black, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, among others – and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
"Washington Black" by Esi Edugyan was an excellent historical adventure novel that allowed the reader to witness Wash's unsettling journey. Leaving the sugar cane fields, he learned different societal expectations while experiencing shame and anger associated with rejection by the field slaves.
Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. She's a two-time winner of the Giller Prize for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black. (Tamara Poppitt) Esi Edugyan is one of Canada's most...
Esi Edugyan has a Masters in Writing from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New American Voices 2003, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, and Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing (2006).
ESI EDUGYAN is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Orange Prize.