ESI EDUGYAN is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize and the Orange Prize. In 2014, she published her first book of non-fiction, Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home. Esi’s new novel is Washington Black.

Note: Esi Edugyan had to postpone her appearance in Whistler for another time due to engagements related to her recent Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist nomination.