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Guy Vanderhaeghe

Friday, Oct. 18, 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm

Part of: STARFest Readers Festival

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)
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Oct.
18

Guy Vanderhaeghe In conversation with Senator Paula Simons

Guy Vanderhaeghe was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, in 1951. His previous fiction includes A Good ManThe Last CrossingThe Englishman's BoyThings as They Are (stories), HomesickMy Present AgeMan Descending (stories), and Daddy Lenin and Other Stories.

His most recent novel, August Into Winter, received the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and the Glengarry Book Award.

Among the other awards he has received are the Governor General's Awards (three times); and, for his body of work, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship, the Writers' Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Literary Prize. He has received many honours, including the Order of Canada.


St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

Forsyth Hall

5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9


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