Esi Edugyan
Esi Edugyan | |
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Scotiabank Giller Prize 2011 Half-Blood Blues Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2012 Half-Blood Blues Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018 Washington Black | |
Spouse | Steven Price |
Children | 2 |
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).
Biography
Esi Edugyan was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to parents from Ghana.[1] She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, where she was mentored by Jack Hodgins. She also earned a master's degree from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.[1][2]
Her
Despite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript.
Published in 2011, Half-Blood Blues was shortlisted for that year's
On November 8, 2011, she won the Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues.
In March 2014, Edugyan's first work of non-fiction, Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home, was published by the University of Alberta Press[15] in the Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series.[16][17] In 2016, she was writer-in-residence at Athabasca University in Edmonton, Alberta.[18]
Her third novel, Washington Black, was published in September 2018.[19] It won the Giller Prize in November 2018,[20] making Edugyan only the third writer, after M. G. Vassanji and Alice Munro, ever to win the award twice.[21][22] Washington Black was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,[23] the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[24] the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction,[25] and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.[26] The novel was selected for the 2022 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Mark Tewksbury.[27]
She features in Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa with the contribution "The Wrong Door: Some Meditations on Solitude and Writing".[28]
Edugyan was selected as chair for the 2023 Booker Prize jury, alongside fellow judges Robert Webb, Mary Jean Chan, Adjoa Andoh and James Shapiro.[29][30]
Personal life
Edugyan lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is married to novelist and poet Steven Price, whom she met when they were both students at the University of Victoria.[1] Their first child was born in August 2011,[31] their second at the end of 2014.[32]
Works
- The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (2004)
- Half-Blood Blues (2011)
- Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home (2014)
- Washington Black (2018)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Donna Bailey Nurse, "Writing the blues" Archived 2014-02-27 at the Wayback Machine. Quill & Quire, July 2011.
- ^ John Threlfall, "Writing grad Esi Edugyan makes shortlist trifecta", Fine Arts, University of Victoria, October 4, 2011.
- ^ Mike Devlin, "Colwood author Esi Edugyan back with new novel", Times Colonist, September 8, 2018.
- ^ "Esi Edugyan: History, Culture, and Belonging", The Douglas Review, May 1, 2017.
- ^ "Two Canadians Shortlisted for Man Booker". The Mark. September 6, 2011. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012.
- ^ a b John Barber, "Generation Giller: New young writers dominate Canada's richest fiction prize", The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2011.
- ^ John Barber, "Booker nominees Edugyan, deWitt make shortlist for Writers' Trust prize". The Globe and Mail, September 28, 2011.
- ^ Greg Quill, "Edugyan, deWitt contemplate 'an embarrassment of riches'", Toronto Star, October 11, 2011. Archived January 4, 2013, at archive.today.
- ^ John Barber, "Edugyan and deWitt add GGs to long list of nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 11, 2011.
- ^ "Esi Edugyan wins the Giller Prize". CBC News, November 8, 2011.
- ^ John Barber, "Author Esi Edugyan takes home the Giller Prize", The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2011.
- ^ "Edugyan and deWitt face off in yet another literary contest". The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2012.
- ^ "The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners Announced", Cleveland Public Library, April 25, 2012. Archived.
- ^ "Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Goes to Arnold Rampersad", Publishers Weekly, July 12, 2012,
- ^ Julie Baldassi, "Spring preview 2014: non-fiction, part 2", Quill & Quire, January 18, 2014.
- ^ Dreaming of Elsewhere at The University of Alberta Press.
- ^ Madeleine Thein, "Where Do We Belong?", Literary Review of Canada, July–August 2014.
- ^ "Esi Edugyan", English-Canadian Writers, Athabasca University.
- CBC Books, April 26, 2018.
- ^ Adina Bresge, "Esi Edugyan wins Scotiabank Giller Prize for 'Washington Black'", CTV News, November 19, 2018.
- ^ Cliff Lee, "Esi Edugyan wins her second Giller Prize, this time for Washington Black". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2018.
- ^ Adina Bresge, "Esi Edugyan wins second $100K Giller Prize for Washington Black". Toronto Star, November 19, 2018.
- ^ "Washington Black | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
- ^ Ryan Porter, "Edugyan, Hage among Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction finalists", Quill & Quire, September 26, 2018.
- ^ "ALA Unveils 2019 Carnegie Medals Shortlist". American Libraries. October 24, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
- ^ Chukwuebuka Ibeh, "Esi Edugyan Shortlisted for €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award", Brittle Paper, October 9, 2020.
- CBC Books, January 26, 2022.
- ^ "'It is a loss of privacy that has the greatest ability to destroy an artist'—Esi Edugyan, excerpted from New Daughters of Africa". The Johannesburg Review of Books, June 3, 2019.
- ^ Brown, Lauren (December 13, 2022). "Twice-shortlisted Edugyan announced as chair of judges for 2023 Booker Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ "Canadian writer Esi Edugyan to chair 2023 Booker Prize jury". CBC Books. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. December 13, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
- ^ Marsha Lederman, "Esi Edugyan: A new baby, and an armful of literary-award nominations", The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2011.
- ^ Adrian Chamberlain, "Victoria writer Steven Price scores international book deal", Times Colonist, November 13, 2014.