# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esi-edugyan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:52:06.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esi-edugyan"
name: "Esi Edugyan"
slug: "esi-edugyan"
description: "Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018)."
tagline: "Ghanaian Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esi_Edugyan_-_EMWF_2018_-_DanH-7118_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.71425866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/EsiEdugyan"
    handle:    "EsiEdugyan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10999836/"
    handle:    "nm10999836"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.esiedugyan.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Эдугян, Эси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اسى ادوجيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اسی ادوقیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%81%D0%B8_%D0%95%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%8A%D0%BD"
    title: "Еси Едужън"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اسی ادوگیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EC%8B%9C_%EC%97%90%EB%91%90%EC%9E%94"
    title: "에시 에두잔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esi_Edugyan"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542425"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3399597"
    title: "Esi Edugyan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump