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Jun 2, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Morgan Talty |Esi Edugyan
FIRE EXIT, by Morgan TaltyThere's a lovely clarity to Morgan Talty's debut novel, "Fire Exit." He is especially bracing about the losses that can accrue with time. When we first meet Charles Lamosway, Talty's middle-aged protagonist, he is at a crossroads: Mental illness and dementia threaten to engulf his mother; he has been evicted from the Native reservation where he has lived all his life; and, most painful of all, his daughter doesn't know him.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Esi Edugyan
In just three day’s time, on Tuesday, April 9 at 2pm (BST), the shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2024 will be announced, with the 13 longlisted titles whittled down to a final six. But before the big reveal, we’d love you to join us in discovering more about the longlisted authors and translators. In a series of interviews, the longlistees share their thoughts on being nominated for this year’s prize.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Esi Edugyan |Elena Ferrante
The author of Washington Black talks to us about the tireless research she conducted for the novel, her passion for the classics – and why she’ll always return to The Catcher in the Rye Publication date and time: Published April 5, 2024Tell us about a book that you loved as a child. What was it about this book that captured your imagination, and has it stayed with you?
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Esi Edugyan
I might have been ten, eleven years old—I cannot say for certain—when my first master died. No one grieved him; in the fields we hung our heads, keening, grieving for ourselves and the estate sale that must follow. He died very old. I saw him only at a distance: stooped, thin, asleep in a shaded chair on the lawn, a blanket at his lap. I think now he was like a specimen preserved in a bottle.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Esi Edugyan
Skip to main content Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize, Esi Edugyan’s novel relates the astonishing adventures of Washington Black, whose escape from the brutal cane plantations of Barbados was only the beginningWashington Black was also shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence, among others – and won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was chosen by both the New York Times and Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2018.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Esi Edugyan
To celebrate our April Monthly Spotlight, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, we are giving you the chance to win a copy of the novel and a limited-edition, Booker Prize tote bag. In her 2018 shortlisted novel, Esi Edugyan relates the astonishing adventures of Washington Black, whose escape from the brutal cane plantations of Barbados was only the beginning. As an 11-year-old field slave, he is selected to be the personal servant of one of the new owners - the eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Esi Edugyan
On a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black, an 11-year-old field slave, is selected to be the personal servant of one of the new owners – the eccentric Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde. Titch is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor – and abolitionist. His idealistic plans are soon shattered and Washington finds himself in mortal danger. They escape the island together, but Titch disappears and Washington must make his way alone, following his own path to freedom.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
mykawartha.com | Deborah Dundas |Esi Edugyan
It’s been a banner few years for Canadians and the Booker Prize, not because of wins or even nominations, but because both the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction and the 2024 International Booker Prize have had Canadians as their jury chairs. The jury for regular prize, which was awarded in November to Irish writer Paul Lynch for “Prophet Song,” was chaired by B.C. writer Esi Edugyan (who was herself a finalist for the prize twice, in 2018 for “Washington Black” and in 2011 for “Half-Blood Blues”).
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Deborah Dundas |Esi Edugyan
It’s been a banner few years for Canadians and the Booker Prize, not because of wins or even nominations, but because both the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction and the 2024 International Booker Prize have had Canadians as their jury chairs. The jury for regular prize, which was awarded in November to Irish writer Paul Lynch for “Prophet Song,” was chaired by B.C. writer Esi Edugyan (who was herself a finalist for the prize twice, in 2018 for “Washington Black” and in 2011 for “Half-Blood Blues”).
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
vancouversun.com | Esi Edugyan |David Chariandy |Harrison Mooney |Chelene Knight
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