Rudy Henry Wiebe is an author best known for his novels set in the Canadian prairies and his representations of First Nations people.
Rudy Wiebe’s parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930. Rudy grew up in a small Mennonite community of about 250 people, where he attended school. He read as much as possible from an early age.
In 1947 Rudy and his family moved to the town of Coaldale in Southern Alberta.
