KEITH HENDERSON WINS U.S. AWARD FOR HIS LATEST BOOK
May 11, 2006
|
|
DC
Books recently announced that Vanier College English teacher Keith
Henderson's latest collection of short stories,
The Pagan Nuptials of Julia, has just won the American Independent
Publishers Book Award (2006) for best fiction from Eastern Canada.
Mr. Henderson will be in Washington DC for Book Expo America on May 19 to receive the award. The Pagan Nuptials of Julia chronicles the lives of ordinary English-speaking Quebeckers who "did not go the other way" down the 401, a neglected Canadian minority that saw its treasured world sacrificed by statist deceit and disowned with "stricken, evasive looks" even by its own kind. |
|
Keith Henderson was born in Montreal. Educated at McGill, Concordia, and the University of Toronto, he teaches English at Vanier College in Montreal. From 1990-93, Henderson chaired the Equality Party of Quebec’s committee on Canada’s Constitution, and was chief architect of the EP’s constitutional policy. He served as leader of the Equality Party from 1993-2003. |
 |
REVIEWS
FOR THE PAGAN NUPTIALS OF JULIA
"The Pagan Nuptials of Julia takes us from Montreal to rural Italy,
where Julia was born.... It's a story that says something profound about
the human condition. It feeds the soul.... "
-The
Globe and Mail
"A remarkably erudite collection that displays an impressive versatility."
- The Gazette
"This book is an interesting well written collection of stories
told from a variety of viewpoints - male, female, young, old, married,
single, divorced. "
- The Montreal Review of Books
"Reminiscent
of the works of Hawthorne, Mansfield, Mann, and Sinclair Ross, Keith
Henderson’s The Pagan Nuptials of Julia presents the brilliant,
interrogative creations of one of Canada’s finest “journalists
of the soul.”
- writerscafe.ca
OTHER
BOOKS BY KEITH HENDERSON
(CLICK ON THE COVERS FOR MORE INFO)
 |
 |
 |
BACK TO FACULTY AND STAFF IN THE NEWS BACK TO VANIER HOME PAGE