Education
University of British Columbia.
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The Broken Record Technique
(Adolescent boys lost in sumo wrestler costumes battle it ...)
Adolescent boys lost in sumo wrestler costumes battle it out in a suburban yard as their parents stake the odds. A boy disappears from his home, lured by a man who looks exactly like his father. A young man spends a potentially heroic day with his wife at the new wave pool, while trying to save his marriage. These are quirky, engaging stories both afflicted and inspired by the profound isolation and psychic drift that are inherent in a world of talk show television, mega-malls, and suburban sprawl. In his stunning and critically acclaimed debut collection, Lee Henderson evokes a world both utterly strange, yet eerily familiar.
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Lee Henderson
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He was born in Saskatoon, and raised there and in Calgary. He currently resides in Vancouver. His short stories have appeared in several publications and his journalism has been featured in The Vancouver Sun.
He is a contributing editor for the visual art magazines Border Crossings and Contemporary, for which he writes on Vancouver art and artists.
Achievements
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The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English. The Manitoba Game was shortlisted for the 2008 Rogers Writers" Trust Fiction Prize and won the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize as well as the 2009 City of Vancouver Book Award. His short story "Sheep Dub" was included in the 2000 Journey Prize Anthology and "Conjugation" appeared in the 2006 Journey Prize Anthology. lieutenant was shortlisted for the Journey Prize Award.
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The Broken Record Technique
(Adolescent boys lost in sumo wrestler costumes battle it ...)
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The Broken Record Technique
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Nationality
Canada
Awards
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Journey Prize; Danuta Gleed Literary Award; Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.