Stephen Henighan Explained

Birth Date:19 June 1960
Birth Place:Hamburg, Germany
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:writer, journalist, academic
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Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan (born 19 June 1960) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist, translator and academic.

Henighan has written short stories and novels about immigrants and travellers. He has served as general editor of the Biblioasis International Translation Series. As an academic at the University of Guelph, he is known for his scholarly criticism on, and translations of, Latin American literature, and Lusophone African fiction. As a journalist, Henighan is also known for hard-hitting criticism of Canadian literature and culture.

Early life

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Henighan arrived in Canada at the age of five and grew up in rural eastern Ontario.[1]

Education and career

Henighan studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981.[2] From 1984 to 1992 he lived in Montreal as a freelance writer and completed an M.A. at Concordia University.[3] Between 1992 and 1996 he earned a doctorate in Spanish American literature at Wadham College, Oxford.[4] While at Oxford, Henighan became the first writer to have stories published in three different editions of the annual May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories.[5] 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.[6]

Henighan has published six novels. His short stories have been published in Canada, the U.S., Great Britain and, in translation, in Europe, in journals such as Ploughshares,[7] Lettre Internationale,[8] The Malahat Review,[9] The Fiddlehead.,[10] Queen's Quarterly,[11] Prairie Fire.[12] Henighan's novels and stories feature immigrants, travellers and other displaced people caught between cultures.[13] [14] 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."[15]

Henighan's journalism has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement,[16] The Walrus,[17] The Globe and Mail,[18] Toronto Life,[19] Adbusters and the Montreal Gazette. From 2003 to 2023 Henighan wrote a column on Canadian and international culture in Geist.[20] He has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award,[21] and the Canada Prize in the Humanities.[22] In 2006 Henighan set off a controversy when he attacked the Giller Prize.[23] [24] [25] [26]

As an academic, he has published articles on Latin American literature and Lusophone African fiction, a book on the Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias and a 776-page study of the analysis of the history of Nicaragua presented in the work of Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez.

Henighan has published translations from Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, including Angolan writer Ondjaki,[27] Cabo Verdean writer Germano Almeida,[28] Nicaraguan poet Carlos Rigby,[29] and the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian,[30] . From 2007 to 2024 Henighan was general editor of a translation series run by Biblioasis,[31] a literary publisher based in Windsor, Ontario. Writers recruited by Henighan for the Biblioasis International Translation Series include Horacio Castellanos Moya, Mia Couto, Pepetela, Thomas Melle, Liliana Heker and Emili Teixidor. As a translator, Henighan has twice been a longlist finalist for the Best Translated Book Award,[32] [33] and once for the International Dublin Literary Award.[34]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Non-fiction

Translations

Collaborative books

External links

Notes and References

  1. bio note on back flap of Henighan's first novel, Other Americas
  2. Book: Henighan, Stephen . North. . 1981 . Swarthmore, Pa. . English . 78725396.
  3. 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
  4. Web site: SOLO: Search Oxford Libraries Online. library.ox.ac.uk . https://archive.today/20120715075411/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 . 15 July 2012.
  5. 1993, 1994, 1995 May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories (Varsity/Cherwell), pp. 41-51, 93-118, 1-16
  6. Canadian Who's Who Vol. XLII (University of Toronto Press, 2007)
  7. Web site: The Blue River Hotel Ploughshares . 2022-03-24 . www.pshares.org.
  8. Web site: Nr. 54 / vara 2005 . 2022-03-24 . www.icr.ro.
  9. Web site: The Malahat Review . 2022-03-24 . www.malahatreview.ca.
  10. Web site: Cochabamba The Fiddlehead . 2022-03-24 . thefiddlehead.ca.
  11. Web site: VOLUME 105 1998 - Content and Authors Queen's Quarterly . 2022-03-24 . www.queensu.ca.
  12. Web site: Volume 38, No. 2, Summer 2017 . 2022-03-24 . Prairie Fire . en-US.
  13. The Globe and Mail, 5 June 1999, The Times Literary Supplement, 7 December 2007
  14. The Globe and Mail 19 Jan 2008, The literary Review of Canada, April 2002
  15. Canadian Literature #196 (Spring 2008), p.131
  16. Web site: TLS - Times Literary Supplement .
  17. Web site: Stephen Henighan . 26 May 2009 . 7 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081007000036/http://walrusmagazine.com/author/stephen-henighan . dead .
  18. Web site: Search Results. The Globe and Mail.
  19. Web site: Toronto Life . 2022-03-24 . Toronto Life . en-US.
  20. https://www.geist.com/topics/henighan-stephen/
  21. Web site: The Canada Council for the Arts - Governor General's Literary Awards . 2010-02-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100211124339/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla . 11 February 2010 .
  22. Web site: MQUP Books Shortlisted for 2015 Canada Prizes. 24 March 2015.
  23. Web site: An anti-Giller gadfly in Guelph . 2009-06-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120221225256/http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=04acfd6b-8cd2-4e4d-9318-0efd8035aa1e&k=59202 . 21 February 2012 .
  24. Web site: Giller Kafuffle: Stephen Henighan Replies | Geist . 2009-06-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728185634/http://www.geist.com/letters/giller-kafuffle-stephen-henighan-replies . 28 July 2011 .
  25. Web site: Are the Gillers Rigged?. 23 January 2007.
  26. http://news.guelphmercury.com/printArticle/259972
  27. Web site: Ondjaki . 26 January 2008 . 14 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120414120144/http://www.mertin-litag.de/authors_htm/Ondjaki.htm . dead .
  28. Web site: A Form of African Identity. 11 May 2020 .
  29. Web site: If I Were May | the Walrus. 12 June 2007.
  30. [Mihail Sebastian]
  31. Web site: Home. 12 October 2023 .
  32. Web site: 2015 Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist « Three Percent.
  33. Web site: Best Translated Book Awards Names 2019 Longlists. 10 April 2019.
  34. Web site: Transparent City – DUBLIN Literary Award. 9 November 2019 .

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