Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010

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For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide to western Canadian Mennonite, aboriginal, and settler culture. Some say he wrote the book on historical prairie fiction. In fact, he's written quite a few. The University of Alberta Press is proud to publish the fifty short stories that Wiebe completed between 1955 and 2010, including four previously unpublished stories. This is a must-have book for aficionados of great world literature, fans of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-88864-540-1
EAN: 9780888645401
Produktnummer: 8270453
Verlag: University of Alberta Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 552 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D3.3 cm 808 g
Gewicht: 808
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Rudy Wiebe was born in the Mennonite homestead community of Speedwell, Saskatchewan. Since the 1950s, he has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring readers with award-winning novels, short stories, essays, memoir, histories, and screenplays. 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 2004 he won the Charles Taylor Prize for his memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. Wiebe is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives with his wife Tena in Edmonton, Alberta.