Interview with Canadian novelist and short story writer Guy Vanderhaeghe from 1982, by Kevin Courrier. At the time, Vanderhaeghe had just published his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Man Descending. That volume would go on to win the Governor General's Award for Fiction, one of the few first-time authors to achieve this. He would win this award again in 1996 for his novel The Englishman's Boy. In 2015, his most recent published work, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, would be similarly honoured.
The segment first aired on the radio show On the Arts, on CJRT-FM in Toronto in 1982. For more from Kevin Courrier, and other arts critics, visit us at www.criticsatlarge.ca.
