Age, Biography and Wiki

Esi Edugyan was born on 1978 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is a Canadian novelist (born 1978). Discover Esi Edugyan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation Writer
Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign N/A
Born 1978
Birthday
Birthplace Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canada

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on . She is a member of famous Writer with the age 46 years old group.

Esi Edugyan Height, Weight & Measurements

At 46 years old, Esi Edugyan height not available right now. We will update Esi Edugyan's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Who Is Esi Edugyan's Husband?

Her husband is Steven Price

Family
Parents Not Available
Husband Steven Price
Sibling Not Available
Children 2

Esi Edugyan Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Esi Edugyan worth at the age of 46 years old? Esi Edugyan’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from Canada. We have estimated Esi Edugyan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income Writer

Esi Edugyan Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook Esi Edugyan Facebook
Wikipedia Esi Edugyan Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1978

Esi Edugyan (born 1978) is a Canadian novelist.

2004

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.

Despite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript.

She spent some time as a writer-in-residence in Stuttgart, Germany.

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.

The Afro-German Hiero is abducted by the Nazis as a "Rhineland Bastard".

Several of his fellow musicians flee Germany for Paris with the outbreak of World War II.

The Americans return to the United States, but they meet again in Europe years later.

2011

She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018).

Esi Edugyan was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to parents from Ghana.

She studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, where she was mentored by Jack Hodgins.

She also earned a master's degree from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

Published in 2011, Half-Blood Blues was shortlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.

Edugyan was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Patrick deWitt, to make all four award lists in 2011.

On November 8, 2011, she won the Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues.

Their first child was born in August 2011, their second at the end of 2014.

2012

Again alongside deWitt's work, Half-Blood Blues was shortlisted for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.

In September 2012, in a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, Edugyan received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction for Half-Blood Blues, chosen by a jury composed of Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates Jr.., Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, and Simon Schama.

2014

In March 2014, Edugyan's first work of non-fiction, Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home, was published by the University of Alberta Press in the Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series.

2016

In 2016, she was writer-in-residence at Athabasca University in Edmonton, Alberta.

2018

Her third novel, Washington Black, was published in September 2018.

It won the Giller Prize in November 2018, making Edugyan only the third writer, after M. G. Vassanji and Alice Munro, ever to win the award twice.

2019

Washington Black was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.

The novel was selected for the 2022 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Mark Tewksbury.

She features in Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa with the contribution "The Wrong Door: Some Meditations on Solitude and Writing".

Edugyan was selected as chair for the 2023 Booker Prize jury, alongside fellow judges Robert Webb, Mary Jean Chan, Adjoa Andoh and James Shapiro.

Edugyan lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is married to novelist and poet Steven Price, whom she met when they were both students at the University of Victoria.