Esi Edugyan

Mark Tewksbury is defending Washington Black by Esi Edugyan on Canada Reads 2022.

Canada Reads will take place March 28-31. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books. 

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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 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.

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Interviews with Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan wins 2nd Scotiabank Giller Prize

5 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

5 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

5 years ago

Duration 2:12

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

Sunday Edition27:35Esi Edugyan on Washington Black and the inescapable tendrils of slavery

The celebrated Canadian writer talks to Michael about growing up black in Calgary, the legacy of slavery, and what it's like to win (or be nominated for) so many literary prizes.

The Next Chapter11:29Esi Eduygan on Washington Black

Esi Eduygan talks to Shelagh Rogers about her new novel Washington Black.