Guy Vanderhaeghe
Friday, Oct. 18, 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Part of: STARFest Readers Festival
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Guy Vanderhaeghe In conversation with Senator Paula Simons
Guy Vanderhaeghe was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, in 1951. His previous fiction includes A Good Man, The Last Crossing, The Englishman's Boy, Things as They Are (stories), Homesick, My Present Age, Man 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.
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