Stephen Henighan

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Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan (born 19 June 1960) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist and academic.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Henighan grew up in rural eastern Ontario, after arriving in Canada at the age of five. He studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981.[1] From 1984 to 1992 he lived in Montreal as a freelance writer and completed an M.A. at Concordia University.[2] In 1996 he earned a doctorate in Spanish American literature at Wadham College, Oxford.[3] He also studied in Colombia, Romania and Germany. From 1996 to 1998 Henighan taught Latin American literature at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. Since 1999 he has taught at the University of Guelph, Ontario.[4]

Henighan has published three novels. His short stories have been published in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain and, in translation, in Europe. Henighan's novels and stories feature immigrants, travellers and other displaced people caught between cultures.[5][6] According to the journal Canadian Literature, Henighan is "a writer who looks hard at the complexities and rebarbative elements of the multicultural, globalized world we live in."[7]

Henighan's journalism has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement,[8] The Walrus,[9] Geist, The Globe and Mail,[10] Toronto Life[11] and the Montreal Gazette. He has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award,[12] among other prizes.

In 2006 Henighan set off a controversy when he attacked the Giller Prize.[13][14][15][16] As an academic, he has published articles on Latin American literature and Lusophone African fiction and a book on the Nobel Prize- winning Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias. Henighan has published translations from Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, notably of the Angolan writer Ondjaki,[17] and the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian,[18] and is general editor of a translation series run by Biblioasis,[19] a literary publisher based near Windsor, Ontario.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Other Americas (1990) Simon & Pierre
  • The Places Where Names Vanish (1998) Thistledown Press
  • The Streets of Winter (2004) Thistledown Press

Short stories

  • Nights in the Yungas (1992) Thistledown Press
  • North of Tourism (1999) Cormorant Books
  • A Grave in the Air (2007) Thistledown Press

Non-fiction

  • Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Ángel Asturias (1999) Legenda
  • When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing (2002) The Porcupine's Quill
  • Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family (2002) Beach Holme Publishing
  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture (2008) Biblioasis

Translations

  • Good Morning Comrades (novel by Angolan writer Ondjaki) (2008) Biblioasis
  • The Accident (novel by Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian) (2011) Biblioasis

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78725396&referer=brief_results
  2. ↑ http://clues.concordia.ca/search?/YStephen+henighan&SORT=D/YStephen+henighan&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Stephen%20henighan/1%2C9%2C9%2CB/frameset&FF=YStephen+henighan&SORT=D&8%2C8%2C
  3. ↑ http://library.ox.ac.uk/WebZ/GeacFETCH?sessionid=01-44730-875257098:recno=4:resultset=1:format=F:next=html/geacnffull.html:bad=error/badfetch.html::entitytoprecno=4:entitycurrecno=4
  4. ↑ Canadian Who's Who Vol. XLII (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
  5. ↑ The Globe and Mail, 5 June 1999, The Times Literary Supplement, 7 December 2007
  6. ↑ The Globe and Mail 19 Jan 2008, The literary Review of Canada, April 2002
  7. ↑ Canadian Literature #196 (Spring 2008), p.131
  8. ↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sitesearch.do?query=Henighan&turnOffGoogleAds=false&submitStatus=searchFormSubmitted&mode=simple&sectionId=5542&x=35&y=5
  9. ↑ http://walrusmagazine.com/author/stephen-henighan
  10. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/search/?query=Stephen+Henighan
  11. ↑ http://www.torontolife.com/
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=04acfd6b-8cd2-4e4d-9318-0efd8035aa1e&k=59202
  14. ↑ http://www.geist.com/letters/giller-kafuffle-stephen-henighan-replies
  15. ↑ http://torontoist.com/2007/01/are_the_gillers.php
  16. ↑ http://news.guelphmercury.com/printArticle/259972
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ Mihail Sebastian
  19. ↑
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