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Armin Wiebe has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library and the Parkland Regional Library. His readings have been enjoyed by audiences across Canada and he has shared stages with W.O. Mitchell, Carol Shields, Rudy Wiebe, Greg Hollingshead, Miriam Toews and Fireside Al Maitland. From 1996 – 2008 he taught Creative Writing in the Creative Communications program at Red River College.

Over the years Wiebe has been invited to do readings from his work at various academic conferences at universities including Manitoba, Trier (Germany), Graz (Austria), and Saint Boniface University College.


Most recently, Armin Wiebe has been working on a stage play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz.
The play is now scheduled as part of Theatre Projects Manitoba’s 2010-2011 season with an opening night of April 7, 2011 in the Rachel Brown Theatre in Winnipeg.


Mean while, Armin is working on a new novel, a sequel to his award-winning novel, Tatsea.

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Armin Wiebe’s latest novel, Tatsea, is an adventure love story set in Canada’s subarctic in the 1760s. Before that he published three comic novels in an attempt to create legends out of the landscape of the former tall grass prairie which may be a tall tale in itself since the largest surviving fragment of tall grass prairie in Canada has a city address.

Wiebe’s first novel, The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, generated a number of book banning legends, while his second novel, Murder in Gutenthal: A Schneppa Kjnals Mystery, foreshadowed certain cross-border pharmaceutical commerce. In The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst Wiebe tried to create a legend out of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord Referendum even as it was happening. He takes solace in the legend that Melville’s Moby Dick sold a whopping 3000 copies in the first 70 years of its existence.

Armin’s novels have been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, The Leacock Medal for Humour, and The McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award. His stories have been selected for The Journey Prize Anthology and shortlisted for the Western Magazine Awards. "The Little Kollouch" won 1st place in the 2002 Prairie Fire Fiction contest. Tatsea won The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the 2004 Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards.