Port Medway
From 7pm
Old Meeting House, Port Medway
167 Long Cove Rd, Port Medway, NS
http://portmedwayreadersfestival.com
$20.--
Port Medway Readers' Festival 10-Aug-2019:
Esi Edugyan
Canadian author Esi Edugyan has shot to international literary fame in the past eight years. It began with Half Blood Blues, a novel about a group of jazz musicians in Paris during World War II. But her promise was first noticed when her debut book, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2005.
Half Blood Blues was impressively short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 – as well as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for English-language fiction, and the Giller Prize. She won the first of her two Giller Prizes – the second being for her newest work, Washington Black. She is one of only three authors to have received the Giller twice.
She has been awarded the American Anisfield-Wold Book Award from a jury that included Henry Louis Gates Jr, Joyce Carol Oates, and Simon Schama.
Washington Black was also shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
This is Esi’s first appearance at The Port Medway Readers’ Festival.
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