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Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist.〔("Writing the blues" ). ''Quill & Quire'', July 2011.〕 ==Biography== Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to Ghanaian immigrant parents,〔 she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University before publishing her debut novel, ''The Second Life of Samuel Tyne'', in 2004.〔 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, which inspired her to drop her unsold manuscript and write another novel, ''Half-Blood Blues'', about a mixed-race jazz musician in World War II-era Europe who is abducted by the Nazis as a "Rhineland Bastard".〔 Published in 2011, ''Half-Blood Blues'' was announced as a shortlisted nominee for that year's Man Booker Prize,〔("Two Canadians Shortlisted for Man Booker" ). ''The Mark'', 6 September 2011.〕 Scotiabank Giller Prize,〔("DeWitt and Edugyan add Giller nods to Booker nominations" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 October 2011.〕 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize〔John, Barber, ("Booker nominees Edugyan, deWitt make shortlist for Writers' Trust prize" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', 28 September 2011.〕 and Governor General's Award for English language fiction.〔("Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award" ). ''Toronto Star'', 11 October 2011.〕 She was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Patrick deWitt, to make all four award lists in 2011.〔 On 8 November 2011, she won the Giller Prize for ''Half-Blood Blues''.〔("Esi Edugyan wins the Giller Prize" ). CBC News, 8 November 2011.〕 Again alongside deWitt, ''Half-Blood Blues'' was also shortlisted for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.〔("Edugyan and deWitt face off in yet another literary contest" ). ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 April 2012.〕 In April 2012, it was announced that Edugyan had won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for ''Half-Blood Blues''.〔("The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners Announced" ). Cleveland Public Library, April 25, 2012.〕 In 2014 she published her first work of non-fiction ''Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home'' with the University of Alberta Press.〔("Spring preview 2014: non-fiction, part 2" ). ''Quill & Quire'', January 18, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esi Edugyan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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