Author

Books by Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist born in Calgary to Ghanaian parents. She is the author of four novels: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Half-Blood Blues, Washington Black, and A Strange and Stubborn Endurance. Both Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, making Edugyan the first author to win Canada's most prestigious literary prize twice. Washington Black was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Her fiction often takes up questions of race, identity, and the African diaspora across different historical periods.