Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan’s “Washington Black” has been named as a finalist for the Man Booker Prize for fiction. The Victoria-based author joins three U.K. writers and two Americans on the short list, marking the second nomination for Edugyan’s book in recent days. “Washington Black” follows the saga of an 11-year-old boy who escapes slavery at a Barbados sugar plantation with the help of the owner’s kinder brother. In an interview last month, the author said making the Man Booker long list was “wonderful.”“I’m blown away by it,” she said at the time. Favourites including Canada’s Michael Ondaatje didn’t make the cut from the 13-novel long list.

Source: National Post September 20, 2018 16:30 UTC