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Sam Wiebe is an award winning Canadian writer.

In 2012 the Crime Writers of Canada honoured Wiebe with their Unhanged Arthur Award. He won the 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for mystery fiction for Last of the Independents. The Kobo Prize comes with a $10,000 cash award.

Wiebe is the author of three mystery novels, Last of the Independents, Invisible Dead and Cut You Down.

In 2019 Akashi Books published a collection of 14 short stories under the name Vancouver Noir - edited by Wiebe. The Globe and Mail quoted Wiebe felt that noir fiction was a good choice to explore the difference between the tourist vision of Vancouver and its genuine areas of inequity and danger.