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Steve Weiner is a Canadian writer and animator. He was born in Wisconsin and studied writing at the University of California. He lives in Vancouver and in London, England.

Weiner's 1994 debut novel The Museum of Love earned comparisons to William S. Burroughs, Céline, Jean Genet, David Lynch and Todd Haynes for its blend of surrealism and dark eroticism, and was a nominee for the inaugural Giller Prize.

His second novel, The Yellow Sailor, was published in 2001 by the Overlook Press of Woodstock & New York. Critics' comments reproduced on that book's cover refer to 'brisk staccato prose,' 'brutish music,' and 'the disillusionment and venality of Brecht.' The novel consists almost entirely of curt, sardonic dialogue interrupted by terse descriptions of a grotesque world of anti-semitism and nationalism that surrounds its merchant-sailor protagonists in the Europe of World War 1. The novel's title is also the name of their ship, which sails from Hamburg in 1914. The paperback edition is aptly illustrated with a painting by Otto Dix, "Abschied von Hamburg," dated 1921.

Weiner's third novel is entitled Sweet England, published in 2010.

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