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Nationality
  
Canadian

Education
  
Queen's University

Role
  
Novelist

Name
  
Steven Heighton

Period
  
1980s-present



Occupation
  
novelist, short story writer, poet, non-fiction

Books
  
Afterlands, The Dead Are More Visible, Every Lost Country, The Shadow Boxer, Flight Paths of the Empe

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Steven Heighton (born 1961) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. He is the author of fourteen books, including three short story collections, three novels and six poetry collections. His most recent book, the poetry collection The Waking Comes Late, was published in 2016.

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2013 Trillium Book Award - Author Readings - Steven Heighton, The Dead Are Mostly Visible


Life and work

Heighton was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up there and in Red Lake, in northern Ontario. He travelled and worked in western Canada and Australia after high school, got a BA and MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and then travelled and worked for two years in Asia before settling back in Kingston and starting to write, at first part-time and eventually full-time.

Heighton's most recent books are the Governor General's Award-winning poetry collection The Waking Comes Late (2016) and the Trillium Award finalist The Dead Are More Visible (May 2012). Heighton is also the author of the novel Afterlands (2006), which appeared in six countries and was cited on best of year lists in ten publications in Canada, the USA, and Britain. The book is in pre-production for film. Heighton's debut novel, The Shadow Boxer (2001), a story about a young poet-boxer and his struggles growing up, also appeared in five countries.

His work has been translated into ten languages and widely anthologised. He won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2016. His books have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award (twice), the Journey Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award (best book of the year). He has received the Gerald Lampert Award, four gold and one silver award for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards, the Air Canada Award, the P.K. Page Award, the K.M. Hunter Award, and the Petra Kenney Prize. Flight Paths of the Emperor has been listed at Amazon.ca as one of the ten best Canadian short story collections and has been published in Britain by Granta Books.

Heighton has been the writer-in-residence at McGill University, Queen's, Concordia, the University of Ottawa, and Massey College at the University of Toronto. He has also led writing workshops at the Summer Literary Seminars in Saint Petersburg, Russia (2007), the May Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2001), Writing with Style at the Banff Centre, and the Sage Hill Writing Experience in Blackstrap Lake, Saskatchewan (2015 and 2016.)

Heighton currently lives in Kingston, Ontario with his family.

Prizes and honours

  • 1990 Gerald Lampert Award for best first poetry collection (for Stalin’s Carnival)
  • 1991 Prism International Short Story Competition, first prize for "Five Paintings of the New Japan"
  • 1992 Finalist, The Journey Prize
  • 1992 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
  • 1993 Finalist, Trillium Award (for Flight Paths of the Emperor)
  • 1995 Finalist, Governor General’s Award for Poetry (for The Ecstasy of Skeptics)
  • 2002 Petra Kenney Prize for Poetry
  • 2004 National Magazine Awards gold medal for poetry
  • 2008 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
  • 2010 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
  • 2010 K.M. Hunter Award for literature
  • 2011 National Magazine Awards silver for poetry
  • 2011 P.K. Page Founder's Award
  • 2013 Finalist, Trillium Award (for The Dead Are More Visible)
  • 2016 Governor General's Award for Poetry (for The Waking Comes Late)
  • References

    Steven Heighton Wikipedia


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