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Miriam Toews

Author of A Complicated Kindness

Includes the names: Myriam Toews, Mariam Toews, Miriam Toews

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Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Canada. She is best known for her novels A Complicated Kindness and All My Puny Sorrows. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She is also a two-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 influenced her fifth novel, Irma Voth. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from A Complicated Kindness… (more)
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Works by Miriam Toews
A Complicated Kindness 2,196 copies, 65 reviews
All My Puny Sorrows 1,189 copies, 66 reviews
Women Talking 1,118 copies, 52 reviews
The Flying Troutmans 885 copies, 78 reviews
Irma Voth 395 copies, 46 reviews
Fight Night 367 copies, 25 reviews
A Boy of Good Breeding 296 copies, 9 reviews
Summer of My Amazing Luck 237 copies, 5 reviews
Swing Low: A Life 195 copies, 9 reviews
Short story [2007] 1 copy
The Misstep 1 copy
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McSweeney's Issue 22: Three Books Held Within By Magnets (Contributor) 331 copies, 4 reviews
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters (Contributor) 133 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (Contributor) 79 copies
McSweeney's Issue 48 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (Contributor) 61 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 137: Followers (Contributor) 55 copies, 3 reviews
Granta 144: Generic Love Story (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
A/Cross Sections: New Manitoba Writing (Contributor) 1 copy
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Toews, Miriam
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Date of birth
1964
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Gender
female
Nationality
Canada
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Birthplace
Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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Places of residence
Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
London, Ontario, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Education
University of Manitoba
University of King's College
Occupations
journalist
novelist
actor
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Carolyn Swayze (Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency)
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Awards and honors
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award (2010)
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Miriam Toews, geboren 1964 in Steinbach/Manitoba, ist eine der wichtigsten kanadischen Gegenwartsautorinnen. Sie studierte Filmwissenschaften und Journalismus und arbeitete für Presse und Rundfunk. Mit ihrem Roman Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, ausgezeichnet mit dem Governor General's Award for Fiction, wurde sie international bekannt. Für Die fliegenden Trautmans erhielt sie unter anderem den Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Bei Hoffmann und Campe erschien 2018 ihr Roman Die Aussprache. Sie lebt in Toronto.
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