Esi Edugyan

She’s a two-time Giller winner for ’Half-Blood Blues’ and ’Washington Black.’ She’s a public intellectual. She’s not a nutritionist. What else do you want to know?

Esi Edugyan, Robyn Maynard, Syrus Marcus Ware and Ian Williams speak with Desmond Cole about protesting anti-Black racism in Canada and what this moment signifies

The extraordinary group of writers and commentators and artists sat down with guest host Desmond Cole for a conversation about systemic racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. Watch the full replay now.

Esi Edugyan: For true systemic shifts to occur, everyone has to recognize that the whole underlying structure is so irreparably broken that no one can afford to live like this anymore

Edugyan on rewriting Washington Black’s many drafts: ’If you had seen the first one you’d never have expected it to have come out the way it did.’

We asked the 2018 nominees: Who are you writing for, who is your imagined or intended reader?

The celebrated author of ’Washington Black’ is already nominated for three major awards, including the Man Booker—an echo of Edugyan’s achievement in 2011

Canadian author Esi Edugyan: ’We have to be on guard against darker things. To not discuss them is to open up the potential for a blind spot or forgetting.’

The approval of literary juries isn’t all that links Patrick Dewitt and Esi Edugyan