was awarded the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize tonight for her novel Half Blood Blues.
"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist, and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that's Esi Edugyan's joyful lament, Half-Blood Blues. It's conventional to liken the prose in novels about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise. In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the way Edugyan writes," the jury said in its citation.
The award was handed out at a black-tie gala in Toronto. The other nominees were for Cat's Table, for The Free World, for The Antagonist, for Better Living through Plastic Explosives, and for Sisters Brothers. The Scotiabank Giller Prize honours the best in Canadian English-language fiction.
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