Lee Henderson

Lee Henderson ( born 1974 in Saskatoon ) is a Canadian writer and journalist who with his book, The Man Game won both the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award 2009.

Life

Lee Henderson grew up in his native town and Calgary. Until 1999 he studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Since 1994 he resides in Strathcona, Vancouver, where he has lived for many musicians and artists in the neighborhood. His short stories published in various anthologies and his journalistic work published the The Vancouver Sun. The short story Sheep Dub was part of the Journey Prize Anthology 2000 and conjugation appeared in 2006 in the Journey Prize anthology. In addition, the latter short story was on the shortlist for the Journey Prize.

In 2002 he published his first collection of short stories, The Broken Record Technique, which was awarded in 2003 with the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, a prize, which is awarded to the best English-language collection of short stories by a Canadian writer and honors the memory Danuta Gleeds. Since then, Lee Henderson is considered one of the greatest talents of the Canadian literary scene.

Henderson's first novel, The Man Game (2009), was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and won both the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award in its year of publication. At the historical novel that takes place consciously with the clichés of the genre, Henderson worked for eight years with ten different final versions. When his sources of inspiration for this novel, he called Samuel Beckett, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace ( Infinite Jest ), Robert Kroetsch (The Studhorse Man) and Ben Marcus ( The Age of Wire and String).

Furthermore, Lee Henderson works as an editor and co-editor for the art magazines Border Crossings and Contemporary, for which he writes articles about the art and artists of Greater Vancouver. In addition, he draws, where he planned the meantime, to make animations, acted as curator of art exhibitions and improvised music concerts.

Lee Henderson lives with his wife Anu in Vancouver and teaches at the Banff Writing Studio Creative Writing.

Work

  • The Broken Record Technique. Penguin Canada 2002, ISBN 0-14-100568-8.
  • The Man Game. Penguin Canada, 2008, ISBN 978-0-670-91147-9.

Awards and nominations

  • 2003: Danuta Gleed Literary Award for The Broken Record Technique
  • 2006: shortlisted for the Journey Prize for conjugation
  • 2009: City of Vancouver Book Award for The Man Game
  • 2009: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Man Game
  • 2009: shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Man Game
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