Certainly I read extensively, and listened to various records, one record leading me into another, Miles Davis’ Porgy and Bess leading me back toward Armstrong, in a strange and unexpected way. It’s difficult for me to go back, sometimes, and reconstruct where elements came from. Q: TELL ME ABOUT THE RESEARCH YOU UNDERTOOK TO WRITE HALF-BLOOD BLUES.ĮE: I tend to live inside a novel, for the long years that it takes to be written everything feeds into the book. But it wasn’t until Sid and Hiero started talking that the novel was truly "born."
I wondered what had happened to those children during the Third Reich. I began to wonder about the history of black people in Germany when I came across a reference to the so-called “Rhineland Bastards,” children born to German women and French black colonial soldiers at the close of the First World War, a story started to take shape in my mind. As a black woman in Germany, for instance, I felt acutely aware of my own skin, in a way I did not at home. I had never spent any appreciable time in Germany before this, and I noticed at once both the differences there-of course-as well as the similarities, similarities made strange by the differences surrounding them. In 2005, I found myself in Stuttgart, attending an arts residency. Here is their conversation.ĮE: Through accident and happenstance, as is so often the case.
Saskatoon writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith connected with Edugyan by email this spring on behalf of the college. Half-Blood Blueswon the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. On that day, Edugyan will appear on campus to discuss Half-Blood Blues and her life as an author.Įsi Edugyan was born in Calgary and now lives in Victoria. Students, faculty and staff across the college will be reading Half-Blood Blues in anticipation of the author’s October 22 visit. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan is the 2015-2016 College of Arts & Science Book Club book of the year.
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