ESI EDUGYAN s most recent novel, Half-Blood Blues, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Edugyan has held fellowships in the U.S., Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Belgium. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and daughter.