Miriam Toews | |
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.jpg) Toews in 2013 | |
| Born | May 21, 1964[1] Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba University of King's College |
| Period | 1990s–present |
| Notable works | A Complicated Kindness (2004) All My Puny Sorrows (2014) Women Talking (2018) |
| Partner | Erik Rutherford |
| Children | Owen Toews Georgia Toews[2] |
Miriam Toews (/ˈteɪvz/ ; born 1964) OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that informed her fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011).
Toews lives in Toronto and is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Arts & Science.[3]
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