Immigration: Veteran Author

Alberta Press Dept: But the veteran author, storyteller and teacher is finding that a story he wrote in 1978 has hit a nerve more than 30 years later as he does readings around the country to promote Collected Stories 1955-2010 The University of Alberta Press, 529 pages, $39.95 , according to Calgary Herald. German-speaking angel emerging from the murk in Fort McMurray. Wiebe, who currently lives in Edmonton, wrote the piece when there were only two refineries working the area. It became part of Alberta: A Celebration, a collection published by Mel Hurtig to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the province. Wiebe spent more than a year researching different parts of the province and writing short stories that represented various regions and you can chalk it up to the timelessness of good storytelling, or perhaps to writer Rudy Wiebe's unique prescience when it comes to writing about the Prairies. The Angel of the Tar Sands is a curious, four-page apocalyptic tale about the discovery of a Hutterite As reported in the news.
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