# Esi Edugyan
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esi edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black.
== Biography ==
esi edugyan was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta; her parents were immigrants from Ghana.
Shelf Help Episode 46
Laura via IG says she “needs historical somewhat fictional adventure” and in this episode the booksellers delivered some great ideas. Emma discussed Hildand Menewood by Nicola Griffith. Jen, subbing for Allie, recommends Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and 100 Years of Solitude to either read ag...
Review Show: Burlesque the Musical
Tom is joined by poet and writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes and dance critic Lyndsey Winship to review the latest big screen to stage musical adaptation Burlesque the Musical, Matthias Glasner's German-language family drama Dying, and Disney Plus series Washington Black based on the hit book by Esi Edugy...
Washington Black explores joy as a form of resistance
It’s not easy to adapt a classic of contemporary literature into an epic TV series, but that’s exactly what Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has done with “Washington Black,” the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by Canadian author Esi Edugyan. Set in a steampunk reimagining of the 19th century, the story follows...
The overlapping truths of history and fiction
Fact and fiction may seem poles apart but writers Esi Edugyan and Tiya Miles find the two intertwine perfectly in their award-winning storytelling. Both authors try to imagine past lives in their work, in part so that we may reimagine our own. They may operate in different realms but what they sh...
On Anna Burns' Milkman, Esi Edugyan's Washington Black and Philip Teir's The Summer House
Kate and Cassie are joined by essayist Fiona Wright and historian Kimberley Knight as they discuss Anna Burns' Irish novel Milkman, Esi Edugyan's story of slavery and escape Washington Black and a Finnish novel of claustrophobic decay, The Summer House. Oh, and there are saints and tears in the m...
Ep. 24 "When The Day Comes" by Gabrielle Meyer; "Washington Black" by Esi Edugyan
"When The Day Comes" by Gabrielle Meyer "Washington Black" by Esi Edugyan