Guy Vanderhaeghe | |
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Born | Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe April 5, 1951 Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Occupation | Novelist |
Alma mater | University of Saskatchewan, University of Regina |
Period | 1977 to present |
Genre | Historical fiction, western fiction, short story |
Notable works | The 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.