| Guy Vanderhaeghe, a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and two-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, will give a free public lecture at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton on “Apprehending the Past: History versus the Historical Novel” on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m., at the Wu Centre, UNB. He will be introduced by writer, artist, and former Lieutenant Governor, Herménégilde Chiasson.
In the past twenty years, the historical novel has achieved popular success in English-speaking Canada and has been recognized by many prize-winning juries. Guy Vanderhaeghe will look at how this popular fiction-form has sometimes caused consternation among academic historians who view it as “bad history,” a ...
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