Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Henry Wiebe (* October 4, 1934 in near Speedwell Fairholme, Saskatchewan, Canada ) is a Canadian writer and son of German Mennonites, who had fled in 1929 from the Soviet Union.

Life and work

Wiebe studied at the University of Alberta in Edmonton medicine first and then English Literature and Creative Writing. A scholarship enabled him to study in Tübingen. Upon his return to Canada, he presented his Masters thesis, the novel Peace Shall Destroy Many, appeared in 1962. The novel describes the life of a fictional critical Mennonite Church and resulted in the loss of his position as editor of a Mennonite weekly magazine.

1963 to 1967 he taught at Goshen College in Indiana, and he later became a professor of English literature at the University of Edmonton.

Wiebe lives in Canada and writes novels, short stories and poems.

His stories and novels deal mainly of Mennonite and Canadian history.

In his novel land beyond the Voices ( 2001) Wiebe tells the story of the Franklin Expedition (1819, search of the Northwest Passage in the polar region ). Shortly after its release in 1994, the novel was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the most important Canadian literary award.

Rudy Wiebe native language is Plautdietsch, a West Prussian Low German Mennonite Low German also called. Transmissions to the Plaut Dietsche of individual chapters from the novel The Blue Mountains of China have been published in the journal Plautdietsch FRIND.

In March 2008, Rudy Wiebe childhood memories from this earth in the German translation by Joachim Utz have appeared in Tweeback publisher. For this book, Wiebe received the Charles Taylor Prize, the most prestigious Canadian prize for non-fiction literature. Also from this book has been published a chapter in plaut Dietscher translation in the journal Plautdietsch FRIND (2008 edition ).

In September 2009, Rudy Wiebe 's first novel is titled peace will destroy many in the German translation by Joachim Utz in Tweeback Verlag published.

Bibliography

Works in the original English

  • Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
  • River of Stone: Fictions and Memories
  • Sweeter Than All the World
  • Fruits of the Earth
  • Peace Shall Destroy Many
  • My Lovely Enemy
  • A Discovery of Strangers
  • The Blue Mountains of China
  • Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman ( with Yvonne Johnson)
  • Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic
  • War in the West: Voices of the North - West Rebellion ( with Bob Beal )
  • The Temptations of Big Bear

Works in German language

  • Land beyond the voices, Frankfurt am Main, 2001. ISBN 3-8218-0845-4
  • As poplars in the wind, Frankfurt am Main, 2004. ISBN 3-8218-0931-0
  • From this earth. A Mennonite childhood in the boreal forest of Canada, Bonn 2008. ISBN 978-3-98119781-5
  • Peace shall destroy many, Bonn 2009. ISBN 978-3-98119782-2
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