Esi Edugyan wins the 2012 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award (Canada)

Victoria writer Esi Edugyan has won yet another award - the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award. Edugyan's win for her novel, Half Blood Blues, was announced Saturday night in Vancouver at the B.C. Book Prizes awards ceremony. The book has received international critical acclaim and notice on the literary award circuit. Esi Edugyan is also a finalist for Britain's prestigious Orange Prize for women's fiction, to be announced May 30. Half Blood Blues, the story of a black trumpet player who vanishes after being arrested in a Paris cafe, won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize as well the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction