Guy Vanderhaeghe’s newest book, Because Somebody Asked Me To, is a collection of nonfiction that invites readers to ponder the transformations Canadian writing has undergone, where it is now, and where it might go from here.
Guy Vanderhaeghe’s book of short stories, Man Descending, won the Governor’s-General Award for Fiction and the Faber Prize in Great Britain, and his novel, The Englishman’s Boy, was short-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize, the Giller Prize, and earned him his second Governor’s-General Award, as well as several Saskatchewan Book Awards. His novel, Homesick,was co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Prize and The Last Crossing, was a winner of CBC’s Canada Reads Competition and received three Saskatchewan Book Awards. He was given his third Governor’s-General for Daddy Lenin. August Into Winter, won the Glengarry Prize and the 2022 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book is a collection of nonfiction, Because Somebody Asked Me To. He has been the recipient of the Timothy Findley Prize, the Harbourfront Literary Prize, and the Lieutenant Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts, all given for a body of work. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
