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Автор - Esi Edugyan
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Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to Ghanaian immigrant parents,she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University before publishing her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, in 2004.Despite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript.[1] She spent some time as a writer-in-residence in Stuttgart, Germany, which inspired her to drop her unsold manuscript and write another novel...

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to Ghanaian immigrant parents,she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University before publishing her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, in 2004.

Despite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript.[1] She spent some time as a writer-in-residence in Stuttgart, Germany, which inspired her to drop her unsold manuscript and write another novel, Half-Blood Blues, about a mixed-race jazz musician in World War II-era Europe who is abducted by the Nazis as a "Rhineland Bastard".

Published in 2011, Half-Blood Blues was announced as a shortlisted nominee for that year's Man Booker Prize, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Governor General's Award for English language fiction. She was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Patrick deWitt, to make all four award lists in 2011 On 8 November 2011, she won the Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues. Again alongside deWitt, Half-Blood Blues was also shortlisted for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. In April 2012, it was announced that Edugyan had won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Half-Blood Blues.

In 2014 she published her first work of non-fiction Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home with the University of Alberta Press
Дочь выходцев из Ганы, отец - экономический аналитик, мать - медицинская сестра. Изучала англистику и литературное мастерство в Викторианском университете (бакалавр), Университете Джонса Хопкинса (магистр). В качестве магистерского диплома представила книгу рассказов (2001). В 2004 опубликовала первый роман, получивший благоприятные отзывы критиков. Путешествовала, жила в Исландии, Испании, Германии. Рукопись её следующего романа не нашла интереса у издателей, Эдугян отложила его и начала в Akademie Schloss Solitude в Штутгарте, где жила по стипендии в качестве artist in residence, работать над совершенно другим замыслом. Так был написан её второй роман, получивший высокие оценки критики и отмеченный несколькими крупными премиями.

Живёт в Виктории, где преподает в университете литературное мастерство. Муж - поэт и прозаик Стивен Прайс (р. 1977), у супругов есть дочь (р. 2011)


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Half Blood Blues
Half Blood Blues

The book follows a jazz bassist named Sidney "Sid" Griffiths and his bandmates, from the blues music scene in 1939 Berlin and Paris into the 1940s, when Griffiths and his friends attempt to flee the impending peril that looms over Germany. Racial hatred is in vogue, and a mixed-race German citizen (dubbed by the Nazis with the epithet "Rhineland Bastard") like Hiero Falk can be arrested and simply...

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Washington Black
Washington Black

When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of these men. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. Titch'...

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