Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe

In 2000 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Wiebe points out to us that Canada has not come to terms with Native peoples, that there is unfinished business to attend to.' Wiebe was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1986. Thomas King says of The Temptations of Big Bear that 'Wiebe captures the pathos and the emotion of Native people at a certain point in their history and he does it well. Wiebe won the Governor General's Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and A Discovery of Strangers (1994). His work has explored the traditions and struggles of people in the Prairie provinces, both settlers, often Mennonite, and First Nations people. In 2006 he published a volume of memoirs about his childhood, entitled Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. He has also published collections of short stories, essays, and children's books. In addition to Peace Shall Destroy Many, Wiebe's novels include First and Vital Candle (1966), The Blue Mountains of China (1970), The Temptations of Big Bear (1973), The Scorched-wood People (1977), The Mad Trapper (1980), My Lovely Enemy (1983), A Discovery of Strangers (1994), Sweeter Than All the World (2001), and Come Back (2014). Wiebe taught at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana from 1963 to 1967, and taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton for many decades after that. While in Winnipeg, he worked as the editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, a position he was asked to leave after the publication of his controversial debut novel Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962), the book that heralded a wave of Mennonite literature in the decades that followed. In 1962, he received a Bachelor of Theology degree from Mennonite Brethren Bible College in Winnipeg, now Canadian Mennonite University. In Germany, he studied literature and theology and travelled to England, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. in 1956 from the University of Alberta and then studied under a Rotary International Fellowship at the University of Tübingen in West Germany, near Stuttgart.

Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe