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Guy Vanderhaeghe Biography
Guy Vanderhaeghe was born in Saskatchewan, Canada in He writes plays, short stories and novels. He has thrice won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Giller Prize and the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In , Vanderhaeghe was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In , he received the Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Saskatchewan's highest honour in arts. He currently lives in Saskatoon, and teaches creative writing as an evening class at St. Thomas Moore college at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Guy Vanderhaeghe
Canadian writer (born )
Guy Clarence VanderhaegheOC SOM (born April 5, ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The gods Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection Man Descending in , the second for his novel The Englishman's Boy in , and the third for his short story collection Daddy Lenin and Other Stories in
Life and career
[edit]Guy Vanderhaeghe was born on April 5, , in Esterhazy, a mining town in southeastern Saskatchewan.[1] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in , High Honours in History in and Master of Arts in History in , all from the University of Saskatchewan. In he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In he was Research Officer, In
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Guy Vanderhaeghe Biography
Nationality: Canadian. Born: Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, Education: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, B.A. , M.A. ; University of Regina, Career: Archivist, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, ; Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Regina, Saskatchewan, ; high school English and history teacher, Herbert, Saskatchewan, ; Researcher, Access Consulting (health care consultants), Saskatoon, ; writer, —; writer-in-residence, Saskatoon Public Library, Lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Awards: Governor General's award for English fiction, , Agent: c/o Writers Union of Canada, 24 Ryerson Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2P3.
PUBLICATIONS
Novels
My Present Age. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, ; Ticknor &Fields,
Homesick. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, ; Ticknor & Fields,
The Englishman's Boy. New York, Picador USA,
Short Stories
Man Descending. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, ; New York, Ti