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BIO NOTE
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LIFEEsi Edugyan was born to Ghanaian immigrants in Calgary, AB in 1978. She later earned creative writing degrees from the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University (BA and MA respectively). She met her spouse, Steven Price, while at the U of Victoria. Her writing tends to emphasize her person interest in black diaspora, as well as concepts of nation and belonging. Edugyan now lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children.
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AWARDS2012
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Half-Blood Blues.2011
Scotiabank Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues
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PRIMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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LONG FICTIONEdugyan, Esi. The Second-Life of Samuel Tyne. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues. Serpent’s Tail, 2011.
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LONG NON-FICTIONEdugyan, Esi. Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home. Canadian Literature Centre/Centre littérature canadienne/U of Alberta P, 2014.
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SHORT FICTIONEdugyan, Esi. “The Woman Who Tasted of Rose Oil.” Best New American Voices 2003. Mariner Books, 2002.
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SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BOOK REVIEWS
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DREAMING OF ELSEWHEREKostash, Myrna. “Dreaming of Elsewhere.” Alberta Views, vol. 17, no. 6, 2014, p. 56.White, Evelyn C. “Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home.” Herizons, vol. 28, no. 3, 2015, pp. 37-38.York, Lorraine. “Unsettled Belongings.” Canadian Literature, no. 223, 2014, pp. 134-135.
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HALF-BLOOD BLUESAl-Shawaf, Rayyan. “Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan.” Paste Magazine, 15 May 2012.Evaristo, Barbara. “Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan - review.” The Guardian, 24 Jun. 2011.Gray, Brenna C. “National Storytelling.” Canadian Literature, no. 212, 2012, pp. 147-49.Jackson, Jeff. “Vichy France from the Margins; Half-Blood Blues.” Fiction and Film for French Historians: a Cultural Bulletin.
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THE SECOND LIFE OF SAMUEL TYNE“Calgary writer tackles second chance in life; Esi Edugyan writes powerful first novel the reader won’t forget.” Hamilton Spectator.Cole, Olivia. “A Quartet of Debutantes.” Spectator, vol. 297, no. 9214, 2005, p. 55.Drainie, Bronwyn. “The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.” Quill and Quire.Lewis, Su L. “Reluctant Patriarch.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5312, 2005. p. 21.
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BOOKS/DISSERTATIONSVernon, Karina. The Black Prairies: History, Subjectivity, Writing. Dissertation, U of Victoria, 2008.George, Stephanie. I Think I am Canadian’: Spatial Un-belonging and Alternative Home Making in Indigenous and Immigrant Prairie Literature. Dissertation, U of Manitoba, 2014.Medovarski, Andrea Katherine. Un/Settled Migrations: Rethinking Nation through the Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing. Dissertation, York U, 2007.
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INTERVIEWSEdugyan, Esi. “Half-Blood Blues Author Esi Edugyan Interview on the Next Chapter.” By Shelagh Rogers, CBC, 6 Jan. 2014.Edugyan, Esi. “An Interview with Esi Edugyan.” By dee Hobsbawn-Smith, College of Arts and Sciences, U of Saskatchewan, n.d.Edugyan, Esi. “Interview with Esi Edugyan.” By Emma Gilchrist, WestJet Magazine, 21 Jan. 2013.Edugyan, Esi. “Paperback Q&A: Esi Edugyan on Half-Blood Blues.” The Guardian, 7 Feb. 2012.Edugyan, Esi. “The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan.” By Maaza Mengiste, Callaloo, vol. 36, no. 1, 2013, pp. 46-51.
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PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC ARTICLES
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HALF-BLOOD BLUESMcKibbin, Molly L. “Subverting the German Volk: Racial and Musical Impurity in Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues.” Callaloo, no. 2, 2014, p. 413.Staines, David. “Established Fiction.” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 3, 2013, pp. 390-400.York, Lorraine. “’How a Girl from Canada Break the Bigtime’: Esi Edugyan and the Next Generation of Literary Celebrity in Canada.” Canadian Literature, no. 217, 2013. pp. 18-33.
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THE SECOND LIFE OF SAMUEL TYNEBrydon, Diana. “Global Friction, Alberta Fictions.” English Quarterly Canada, vol. 40, no. 1-2, 2008, pp. 3-9.Cooper, Brenda. “Diaspora, Gender and Identity: Twinning in Three Diasporic Novels.” English Academy Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2008, pp. 51-65.Cooper, Brenda. “Women Dancing on Water: A Diasporic Feminist Fantastic?” Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2011.Cuder-Dominguez, Pilar. “Transnational Memory and Haunted Black Geographies: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.” Canadian Literature & Cultural Memory, 2014, pp. 433-443.Davis, Andrea. “A Feminist Exploration in African Canadian Literature.” Multiple Lenses: Voices from the Diaspora Located in Canada, edited by David Divine, Cambridge Scholars, 2007, pp. 250-263. Print.Davis, Andrea. “Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 31-49.Davis, Andrea. “We Have Historically Been ‘Rooted’ in/ Routed to This Place, and we are Here to Stay: Women’s Voices in Black Canadian Literature.” New Dawn: The Journal of Black Canadian Studies, vol. 1. no. 1, 2006.Olaogun, Modupe. “Surreptitious Spaces of Citizenship: Through a Canadian Fictional Prism.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 37, no. 3, 2010, pp. 224-244.
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