Guy Vanderhaeghe

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April 05, 1951 in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian fiction author.

Vanderhaeghe received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in 1971, High Honours in History in 1972 and Master of Arts in History in 1975, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1978 he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In 1973 he was Research Officer, Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan and, from 1974 until 1977, he worked as Archival and Library Assistant at the university. From 1975 to 1977 he was a freelance writer and editor and in 1978 and 1979 taught English and history at Herbert High School in Herbert, Saskatchewan. In 1983 and 1984 he was Writer-in-Residence with the Saska...more Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian fiction author.

Vanderhaeghe received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in 1971, High Honours in History in 1972 and Master of Arts in History in 1975, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1978 he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In 1973 he was Research Officer, Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan and, from 1974 until 1977, he worked as Archival and Library Assistant at the university. From 1975 to 1977 he was a freelance writer and editor and in 1978 and 1979 taught English and history at Herbert High School in Herbert, Saskatchewan. In 1983 and 1984 he was Writer-in-Residence with the Saskatoon Public Library and in 1985 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa. He has been a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa (1985-86), faculty member of the Writing Program of the Banff Centre for the Arts (1990-91), faculty member in charge of senior fiction students in the SAGE Hills Creative Writing Program (1992). Since 1993 he has served as a visiting professor of English at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan.

Vanderhaeghe lives with his wife in Saskatoon.

Vanderhaeghe's first book, Man Descending: selected stories (1982), was winner of a Governor General's Award and the United Kingdom's Faber Prize. A novel, The Englishman's Boy (1996), won him a second Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and for Best Book of the Year, and it was shortlisted for both the Giller Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

He is perhaps best-known for The Last Crossing (2001), a national bestseller and winner of the Saskatoon Book Award, the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction and for Book of the Year, and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year. The novel was selected for the 2004 edition of Canada Reads as the book that should be read by all Canadians.

In 2003, Vanderhaeghe was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.(less)

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Books by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Average rating: 3.74 · 1,757 ratings · 235 reviews · 21 distinct works

	The Englishman's Boy: A Novel 3.69 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Last Crossing 3.69 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions	My rating:
	A Good Man 3.99 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Man Descending: Selected Stories 4.06 avg rating — 81 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Homesick 3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Things as They Are?: Short Stories 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Present Age 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Englishman's Boy 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	The Trouble With Heroes And Other Stories 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	My rating:
	Journey Prize Anthology: The Best of Canada's New Writers 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending: Selected Stories

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“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending: Selected Stories

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“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and Aksionov, the sufferer in "God Sees the Truth But Waits." A country where the characters in books were allowed to ask one another the questions: How must I live to be happy? What is goodness? Why does man suffer? What is to be done?”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending: Selected Stories

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