![]() ![]() The Americans return to the United States, but they meet again in Europe years later. Several of his fellow musicians flee Germany for Paris with the outbreak of World War II. ![]() ![]() The Afro-German Hiero is abducted by the Nazis as a " Rhineland Bastard". ![]() This period inspired her to drop her unsold manuscript and write another novel, Half-Blood Blues, about a young mixed-race jazz musician, Hieronymus Falk, who is part of a group in Berlin between the wars, made up of African Americans, a German Jew, and wealthy German. She spent some time as a writer-in-residence in Stuttgart, Germany. ĭespite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript. Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, written at the age of 24, was published in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2005. She also earned a master's degree from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, where she was mentored by Jack Hodgins. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black.Įsi Edugyan was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta to parents from Ghana. Half-Blood Blues (2011) Washington Black (2018)Įsi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist. Edugyan reading at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018 ![]()
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