Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe has been entertaining, educating and inspiring readers with award-winning novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, histories and screenplays for more than 50 years. Wiebe received the Governor General’s Award for fiction in 1973 for The Temptations of Big Bear and again, in 1994, for A Discovery of Strangers. In 2007, he won the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction for his memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. Wiebe is an Officer of the Order of Canada. His new book, Collected Stories: 1955–2010, contains 50 short stories from his expansive career, including four previously unpublished pieces. He lives with his wife, Tena, in Edmonton.