Rudy Wiebe is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta. He is best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of First Nations people. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest .
An Invention of Influences: Trying to Live a Writer's Life
Speaker(s): Rudy Wiebe
Date: 1998
Length: 3h 35min
Product ID: RGDL2826S
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Rudy Wiebe offers insight into the lives of writers through a short series crafted in the form of letters to a writer friend.
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