THIN AIR

In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.

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THE NOONER: Guy Vanderhaeghe

• Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street
• Carol Shields Auditorium

Award-winning novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe once again animates the early Canadian and American West in his new novel, A Good Man.

Guy Vanderhaeghe earned the acclaim of both critics and readers with his novels and short stories, which include Man Descending, Things as They Are, The Englishman’s Boy, andThe Last Crossing. his new novel, A Good Man (McClelland & Stewart), is the third novel to explore the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West. Among his many awards for specific works are two Governor General’s Awards and several Saskatchewan Book Awards. For his body of work, he has received the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Prize, the writers’ Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Literary Prize. Vanderhaeghe was born in Esterhazy SK and now lives in Saskatoon.