About
the Author
Steven Heighton is the author of the novel Afterlands,
which came out in 2005 in Canada and has recently appeared
in the USA, where it was a New York Times Book
Review Editors’ Choice.
Editions will appear soon in Britain and Australia,
Germany, and the Netherlands. He has also published The
Shadow Boxer, which was a
Canadian bestseller and a Publishers’ Weekly Book
of the Year for 2002. His other fiction books are the
story collections Flight
Paths of the Emperor and On
earth as it is, while his poetry collections
include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The
Address Book.
His work has been translated into nine languages, internationally
anthologised and nominated for the Governor General’s
Award, the Trillium Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Journey
Prize and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award. He has
also won the Lampert Award, the Petra Kenney Prize,
the Air Canada Award and gold medals for fiction and
for poetry in the National Magazine Awards. In 2002/03
he was the writer-in-residence at Concordia University;
in 2004 he was the Massey College writer-in-residence
at the University of Toronto. He lives with his family
in Kingston, Ontario.
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Books by
this author
Afterlands (Vintage Canada, 2006)
Afterlands (Knopf Canada, 2005)
Flight
Paths of the Emperor (Vintage
Canada, 2001)
On
earth as it is (Vintage
Canada, 2001)
The
Shadow Boxer (Vintage Canada, 2001)
The
Shadow Boxer (Knopf
Canada, 2000)
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Literary
Awards
- A
Best Book of 2000, The Globe and Mail (The
Shadow Boxer)
A Best
Book of 2002, in Publisher's
Weekly (The
Shadow Boxer, US ed.)
Kingston
Arts Council Award for Excellence 2004 (The
Shadow Boxer)
Nominated
for the Trillium Award 1993 (Flight Paths of
the Emperor)
nominated
for the W.H. Smith Award 1997 (Flight Paths
of the Emperor, British ed.)
- Gold
Medal for fiction, National Magazine Awards (for
fiction in Flight Paths of the Emperor)
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Book Reviews and Quotes
Afterlands: "Afterlands is a superb work of the imagination — a blend of fact and fiction that is handled with grace and mastery. The shifting landscape of the narrative is perfectly paralleled by the shifting Arctic landscape and the wildly changing fate of the hapless souls trapped on the ice floe. This is Heighton at his best."
—Helen Humphreys, bestselling author of The
Lost Garden
The Shadow Boxer: "Splendid…spine-tingling in
its evocation of passions…The Shadow Boxer is
symphonic, Mahler-like, in its shifting intensities
as it makes segues between the sensory and th epsychological…I
can't think of another writer, not even Ondaatje, who
can be so real while being so mannered. And musical."
—The Globe and Mail
The Shadow Boxer: "Heighton is a heavyweight…[and]
proves himself a master of realist narrative. [Here]
what is old is made new again by pure virtuosity of
execution…The result is a genuine, hard-fought lyrical
beauty that transcends fashion."
—Vancouver
Sun
The Shadow Boxer: "Vivid and powerfully drawn…an
energetic, fluent and interesting novel by a writer
who has shown himself to be gifted, capable of exploring
and experimenting with language."
—The Times
Literary Supplement
On Earth as it is: "If a young Wallace Stevens
were to have written fiction in Canada in this decade,
he might well have produced a volume like this one.
That's the best I can do to suggest both the scope and
distinctiveness of Heighton's enterprise in On earth
as it is."
—Canadian Book Review Annual
Flights Paths of the Emperor: "Flight Paths
of the Emperor is one of the best books produced
by a Canadian writer in the last decade or more…In each
story Heighton sets up a sequence of resonances drawn
more from musical than literary form…a complex, thoroughly
satisfying book"
—Vancouver Sun
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