Esi Edugyan

Author of Washington Black, championed by Mark Tewksbury

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Caption: Esi Edugyan is a Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novelist. (Courtesy of HarperCollins Canada)

Mark Tewksbury is defending Washington Black by Esi Edugyan on Canada Reads(external link) 2022.
Canada Reads(external link) will take place March 28-31. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One(external link), CBC TV(external link), CBC Gem(external link) and on CBC Books(external link).

About Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan is the author of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning Washington Black. Washington Black was also a finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the 2018 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Edugyan is also the author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, the latter of which won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was defended on Canada Reads(external link) by Donovan Bailey in 2014. She delivered the CBC Massey Lectures and adapted the series into the book Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling. Raised in Calgary, Edugyan now lives in Victoria.

Books by Esi Edugyan

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Interviews with Esi Edugyan

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Media Video | The National : Esi Edugyan wins 2nd Scotiabank Giller Prize

Caption: 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.

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Media Video | (not specified) : 'I can see myself in that boy:' Esi Edugyan on her Washington Black hero

Caption: 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.

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Media Video | The National : Rosemary Barton speaks with Esi Edugyan

Caption: Esi Edugyan tells The National’s Rosemary Barton how winning the Giller Prize will allow her to keep writing.

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Media Video | (not specified) : Giller Prize winner chat

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

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Media Video | (not specified) : Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan on growing up black in Alberta

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

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