Guy Vanderhaeghe

Guy Vanderhaeghe
BornGuy Clarence Vanderhaeghe
(1951-04-05) April 5, 1951 (age 73)
Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, Canada
OccupationNovelist
Alma materUniversity of Saskatchewan, University of Regina
Period1977 to present
GenreHistorical fiction, western fiction, short story
Notable worksThe Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, Man Descending

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe OC SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection Man Descending in 1982, the second for his novel The Englishman's Boy in 1996, and the third for his short story collection Daddy Lenin and Other Stories in 2015.