Esi Edugyan

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About Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan is the author of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Washington Black.Washington Blackwas also a finalist forthe 2018 Man Booker Prizeandthe 2018 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Edugyanis also the author of the novelsThe Second Life of Samuel TyneandHalf-Blood Blues, the latter of which won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was defended onCanada Readsby Donovan Bailey in 2014.She delivered theCBC Massey Lecturesand adapted the series into the bookOut of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling.Raised in Calgary, Edugyan now lives in Victoria.

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Interviews with Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan wins 2nd Scotiabank Giller Prize

6 years ago

Duration 2:55

Esi Edugyan won the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize, a $100,000 literary award, for Washington Black. It's her second time winning the prize after she took it home in 2011 for Half-Blood Blues.

'I can see myself in that boy:' Esi Edugyan on her Washington Black hero

6 years ago

Duration 1:16

The author on how she relates to the 11-year-old protagonist, who escapes life as a field slave in the cane fields of Barbados.

Rosemary Barton speaks with Esi Edugyan

6 years ago

Duration 2:11

Esi Edugyan tells The Nationals Rosemary Barton how winning the Giller Prize will allow her to keep writing.

Giller Prize winner chat

13 years ago

Duration 5:25

Interview with author Esi Edugyan, who received the literary award for her book 'Half-Blood Blues' Tuesday night

Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan on growing up black in Alberta

10 years ago

Duration 1:26

Esi Edugyan, the Canadian novelist, and author of the award-winning book Half Blood Blues, shares her thoughts on Black History Month.