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Guy Vanderhaeghe
Saskatoon-based fiction writer and playwright
Guy Vanderhaeghe was born and raised in Esterhazy, a southeast Saskatchewan
mining town, in 1951. He completed several degrees at the University
of Saskatchewan, including a master's degree in history, and then
earned an education degree at the University of Regina. Prior to becoming
a full-time writer, Vanderhaeghe worked as an archivist, researcher,
and high-school teacher. He has served as writer-in-residence for the
Saskatoon Public Library and at the University of Ottawa, been a faculty
member of the Writing Program of the Banff Centre for the Arts and of
the SAGE Hills Creative Writing Program, and since 1993, has been a
Visiting Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan's
St. Thomas More College.
Vanderhaeghe's works include Man
Descending: Selected Stories (1982), a collection of short stories
which won the Governor General's Literary Award and later the British
Faber Prize. Other short-story collections include The Trouble With
Heroes and Other Stories (1983) and Things as They Are- (1992).
Novels include My Present Age, Homesick (1989, City of
Toronto Book Award, The Englishman's Boy (1996) which earned
Vanderhaeghe his second Governor General's Literary Award and has
been made into a television mini-series (2008) featuring R.H. Thomson;
and The Last Crossing (2002), named a selection by the 2004 Canada
Reads panel.
Vanderhaeghe's plays include I
Had a Job I Liked. Once. (1992) and Dancock's Dance (1996).
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