Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe’s achievements as an author, editor, professor and mentor who helped shape successful authors, gave rise to new approaches in the art of storytelling, and encouraged a passion for English Canadian Literature. The collection is a mosaic of critical essays, interviews, literary journal articles and reviews, depicting the life and work of an author deeply involved with his Mennonite literary community as well as with the English Canadian one—who is among the most innovative, celebrated, and prolific. Wiebe’s focus on his Mennonite heritage and Canadian Aboriginal past represent the main themes of his literary interest. The pieces featured in this collection are intended to create a conversation with one another and to serve as witness to the changing times in English Canadian Literature. Rudy Wiebe is a Canadian literary icon whose fiction and nonfiction are seen as major contributions to Canadian Literature, and will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.

Featured authors:

Margaret Atwood                                           George Melnyk

Hugh Cook                                                     Scot Morison  

Hildi Froese Tiessen                                       Maureen Scott Harris             

Katherine Govier                                            Olga Stein      

Milena Kaličanin                                             Paul Tiessen

Myrna Kostash                                                Miriam Toews

Bianca Lakoseljac                                           Uroš Tomić

John Longhurst                                               Aritha van Herk