Celebrating Guy Vanderhaeghe: Writer, Teacher
A talk and book signing with the three-time Governor General's Award-winning author
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 30
Time: 7–9:30 pm
Location: Shannon Library, STM College, 1437 College Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public | Book signing to follow
About this event
Join Guy Vanderhaeghe and writer / MFA in Writing Program graduate Kate O’Gorman as they discuss Vanderhaeghe’s latest book, Because Somebody Asked Me To, along with teaching creative writing and other literary matters.
Because Somebody Asked Me To is an eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spanning Vanderhaeghe's 40-year writing career.
This event is co-sponsored by the St. Thomas More College Department of English and the MFA in Writing Program (Department of English, College of Arts and Science).
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM 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.
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