Armin Wiebe

Join us for an entertaining evening with Armin Wiebe. He will read from his body of work and answer questions from the audience. To join us, please email to receive the Zoom instructions.

About Armin:
Armin Wiebe has published five books of fiction set in mythical Gutenthal: The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Murder in Gutenthal, The Second Coming of Yeeat Shpanst, Armin’s Shorts, and Grandmother, Laughing. Tatsea, set in Canada’s subarctic, was awarded the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

His play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, premiered with Theatre Projects Manitoba in 2011. Armin’s first Oata play, Wine and Little Breads, received a staged reading at the Carol Shields Festival of New Works in 2018 and an Honourable Mention in the 2019 Herman Voaden National Playwrighting Competition; his second Oata play, The Recipe, will premiere at Tom Hendry Warehouse in November 2024 in a co-production between Theatre Projects Manitoba and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre.

In addition to teaching in various communities in Manitoba, Armin lived and taught for six years in Whati, Northwest Territories, before teaching creative writing for a dozen years at Red River College. Armin has served as writer-in-residence at Saskatoon Public Library, Parkland Regional Library in Dauphin, Manitoba, and University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. He was present when the Manitoba Writers’ Guild was founded in 1981 and served on the board in three different decades, as well as a mentor in the Mentor Program for four years.