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Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, writer, playwright (b at Esterhazy, Sask 5 Apr 1951). Guy Vanderhaeghe grew up in Esterhazy, a mining town in southeastern Saskatchewan. He studied history at the University of Saskatchewan, completing his Masters degree there before going on to earn a degree in Education at the University of Regina. He worked as an archivist, researcher and high-school teacher in the 1970s, before turning to writing full-time. He served as writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library and is a Visiting Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan's St Thomas More College.
Vanderhaeghe won the GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD for his first book, Man Descending (1982), a short-story collection that later won the Faber Prize in Britain. His second short-story collection, The Trouble with Heroes , and Other Stories, was published in 1983, and Things as They Are? came out in 1992. His play I Had a Job I Liked. Once (produced in 1991), is an engrossing drama set in a western mining town on a summer night in 1967. A 1918 insane asylum is the setting for Dancock's Dance (first produced in 1995). Vanderhaeghe also co-authored The Urban Prairie (1993), which explores the region's urban heritage through essays, paintings, photography, and other visual media. Vanderhaeghe's novels have attracted a wide readership and international acclaim. His first novel, My Present Age (1984), earned a Booker Prize nomination and has been translated into several languages. Homesick (1989), a spirited novel exploring the power of family bonds to heal and destroy, was co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Award, strengthening his growing reputation as one of Canada's finest writers. Vanderhaeghe won his second Governor General's Award for The Englishman's Boy (1996), which was also named Best Book of the Year at the Saskatchewan Book Awards and short-listed for both the GILLER PRIZE and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Englishman's Boy brings together two compelling tales - one set in 1920s Hollywood, and the other in 1870s Canadian Wild West - recounted by a narrator in Saskatoon in 1952. A television mini-series based on the novel was produced in 2006. The 19th-century West, Canadian and American, is also the main setting for Vanderhaeghe's best-selling and award-winning The Last Crossing (2002), a gripping family saga, love story, and western epic. It won the Saskatoon Book Award, and was named Book of the Year at the Saskatchewan Book Awards and by the Canadian Booksellers Association. A finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Last Crossing was also the choice of the 2004 Canada Reads panel.
 Vanderhaeghe, GuyVanderhaeghe won the Governor General's Award for his first book, "Man Descending" (1982) (photo by Adrian Ewins).
 Dancock's Dance"Dancock's Dance" by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Hume Bugh as the soldier (l) and Joel Kaiser as Lieutenant John Carlyle Dancock (r) (courtesy Persephone Theatre/photo by Grant Kernan).
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Guy Vanderhaeghe
An informative 2003 interview with award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe. From the journal "Aurora."
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