Sam Wiebe
Sam Wiebe is an award winning Canadian writer.
In 2012 the Crime Writers of Canada honoured Wiebe with their Unhanged Arthur Award.[1] He won the 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for mystery fiction for Last of the Independents. The Kobo Prize comes with a $10,000 cash award.
Wiebe is the author of three mystery novels, Last of the Independents, Invisible Dead and Cut You Down.[2][3]
In its December 19, 2018 issue Quill & Quire published an op-ed by Wiebe urging for a greater acceptance of genre writers within the larger community of authors and publishers.[4]
In 2019 Akashi Books published a collection of 14 short stories under the name Vancouver Noir - edited by Wiebe.[2][5] The Globe and Mail quoted Wiebe felt that noir fiction was a good choice to explore the difference between the tourist vision of Vancouver and its genuine areas of inequity and danger.
References
- ↑ "2012 Arthur Ellis Awards Winners". Crime Writers of Canada. http://crimewriterscanada.com/awards/arthur-ellis-awards/past-winners/789-2012-winners. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "A thoroughly satisfying read. An opening that grabs you, fast-moving and at times very funny with snappy dialogue, nice writing and intriguing plot. Very professional, and almost ready for publication. Last of the Independents was our unanimous choice as winner of the Unhanged Arthur Award."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ian Bailey (2019-01-03). "Vancouver gets its moment of Noir – a great way to explore murder, violence, abduction and unhappy endings". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190103220447/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-vancouver-gets-its-moment-of-noir-a-great-way-to-explore-murder/. Retrieved 2019-06-12. "Vancouver collection editor Sam Wiebe, widely praised for his crime novels Last of the Independents, Invisible Dead and Cut You Down, says noir always involves characters spiralling downward no matter how well things are going as the story begins."
- ↑ Brett Josef Grubisic (2018-03-23). "Book review: Cut You Down by Sam Wiebe". Vancouver Sun. https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-cut-you-down-by-sam-wiebe. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "Cut You Down is the second of Sam Wiebe’s novels on the case with David Wakeland, a brooding, fists-ready, disappointed romantic of a P.I."
- ↑ Sam Wiebe (2018-12-19). "Diversity in crime writing: Sam Wiebe urges his genre to reckon with inclusion". Quill & Quire. https://quillandquire.com/omni/diversity-in-crime-writing-sam-wiebe-urges-his-genre-to-reckon-with-inclusion/. Retrieved 2019-06-12. "Being a genre writer in Canada often feels like being the shortest tall poppy. Unless you’re Louise Penny or William Gibson, chances are you’re still building an audience for your work. Yet the support offered to budding literary authors – grants, awards, festival invitations – is rarely extended equally to genre authors."
- ↑ Ryan Porter (2019-04-18). "Crime writers Louise Penny, Sam Wiebe, Sarah Weinman among finalists for 2019 Arthur Ellis Awards". Quill & Quire. https://quillandquire.com/omni/crime-writers-louise-penny-sam-wiebe-sarah-weinman-among-finalists-for-2019-arthur-ellis-awards/. Retrieved 2019-07-11. "Two of the titles shortlisted in the Best Crime Short Story category are from the anthology Vancouver Noir: Linda L. Richards’s 'Terminal City,' about an assassin’s complicated relationship with her mark, and collection editor Sam Wiebe’s story 'Wonderful Life.'"
