Esi Edugyan wins Scotiabank Giller Prize
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This year's Scotiabank Giller prize was presented to Esi Edugyan at a gala in Toronto last night. Her novel Half-Blood Blues tells the story of an African-German jazz musician who disappears at the beginning of World War II. Calgary-born Edugyan was inspired to write the book following an academic residency in Germany.
It has been one of the most honoured novels of the year and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust and Man Booker Prizes. Half-Blood Blues is also a contender for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, which will announce its winner on November 15.
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