Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe is the Governor General’s Award-winning author of The Temptations of Big Bear, Peace Shall Destroy Many, First and Vital Candle, and many other impressive works of both fiction and non-fiction. In addition to writing books, the author has written numerous film and television scripts and has lectured and given readings internationally, in cities from Adelaide to Puerto Rico. For thirty years he taught literature and creative writing at colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and Germany. Now retired from teaching, his former students include such accomplished writers as Myrna Kostash, Aritha van Herk, Thomas Wharton and Katherine Govier.