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Sam Wiebe | |
|---|---|
| Education | Simon Fraser University |
| Occupation | Author |
| Writing career | |
| Period | 2014–present |
| Genres | Crime fiction, thrillers |
| Website | http://samwiebe.com/ |
Sam Wiebe is a Canadian author, known for writing Pacific Northwest crime fiction. He is best known for the Wakeland series, which feature Vancouver PI David Wakeland.
His work has been shortlisted for the Edgar Awards, Hammett Prize, Shamus Awards and City of Vancouver Book Awards. Wiebe has won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the mystery genre in 2015 for Last of the Independents, the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novella in 2021 for Never Going Back, and a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Hell and Gone.[1][2][3][4]
In addition to writing, Wiebe served as the editor of Vancouver Noir, part of Akashic Books' Noir series. The anthology features works by Canadian authors such as Sheena Kamal, Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, and Wiebe himself.
Wiebe's works are often set in his hometown of Vancouver, and has expressed a desire to show the city as a local sees it, rather than how a tourist experiences it.[5] Wiebe has always been interested in crime fiction, and has cited Dashiell Hammett, John D. MacDonald, and Sue Grafton as writing inspirations, as well as John McFetridge's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere and Richard Wagamese's Keeper N Me as influential works.[6][7] He lives in New Westminster, B.C.[8]
Education
[edit]Wiebe completed his Masters of English at Simon Fraser University. He returned to Simon Fraser University as the 2023 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-residence.[9]
Works
[edit]The Wakeland Series:
[edit]- Invisible Dead (Random House of Canada, 2016) (Republished by Harbour Publishing in 2023)
- Cut You Down (Random House of Canada, 2018) (Republished by Harbour Publishing in 2023)
- Hell and Gone (Harbour Publishing, 2021)
- Sunset and Jericho (Harbour Publishing, 2023)
- The Last Exile (Harbour Publishing, 2025)
- Guns Across the River (Harbour Publishing, 2026)
Stand-alones
[edit]- Last of the Independents (Dundurn Press, 2014)
- Never Going Back (Orca Book Publishers, 2020)
- Ocean Drive (Harbour Publishing, 2024)[10]
Non-fiction
[edit]- Shot in Vancouver (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2026)
Under the pen name Nolan Chase
[edit]- A Lonesome Place for Dying (Crooked Lane Books, 2024)
- A Lonesome Pace for Murder (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)
As editor
[edit]- Vancouver Noir (Akashic Books, 2018)[11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo Books Blog. Retrieved 2026-10-02.
- ↑ Qiao, Vicky (2021-05-28). "Will Ferguson among the winners of 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards". CBC Books. Archived from the original on 2026-10-02. Retrieved 2026-10-02.
- ↑ Roberts, Allison (2023-10-02). "2023 Medalists". Independent Publisher Book Awards. Retrieved 2026-10-02.
- ↑ Tobias, Conan (July 8, 2015). "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Gangdev, Srushti (June 4, 2023). "New crime novel explores Vancouver — beaches, warts and all". CBC News. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Why crime writer Sam Wiebe has learned to love editing". CBC Books. February 27, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Brusianina, Valeriia (May 15, 2025). "Sam Wiebe explores a changing Vancouver through his detective's most challenging case". CBC Books. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Sam Wiebe". Harbour Publishing. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
- ↑ Saloustros, Rebecca. "SFU English hosts reading and launch event with writer-in-residence Sam Wiebe". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
- ↑ Wiebe, Sam (2024). Ocean Drive. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 978-1-990776-69-4.
- ↑ Wiebe, Sam, ed. (2018-11-13). Vancouver Noir. Akashic Books, Ltd. ISBN 9781617756597.