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ESI EDUGYAN’S WASHINGTON BLACK TO BE ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION BY 20TH CENTURY FOX TV

ESI EDUGYAN’S WASHINGTON BLACK To be adapted for television by 20TH CENTURY fox TV
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto; March 29 2019)

HarperCollinsCanada is thrilled to share that Esi Edugyan’s Giller Prize–winning, internationally bestselling novel Washington Black will be adapted into a limited series for television by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (The Twilight Zone, Who Fears Death). Rights were won in an intense bidding war by Twentieth Television, in conjunction with Sterling K. Brown’s Indian Meadows Productions, Anthony Hemingway Productions, and The Gotham Group. Edugyan will serve as executive producer.

Released by Patrick Crean Editions in August 2018 to international acclaim, Washington Black is an electrifying story of self-invention, redemption, and the true meaning of freedom. Edugyan won the esteemed Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for both the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Edugyan lives in Victoria, BC.

Esi Edugyan is represented by literary agent Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group. The rights deal was brokered by Rich Green at The Gotham Group on behalf of Ellen Levine and Trident.

 

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Date Posted

March 29, 2019

Author

Jaclyn Hodsdon

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ESI EDUGYAN’S WASHINGTON BLACK TO BE ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION BY 20TH CENTURY FOX TV