Miriam Toews: Biography, Facts and Career
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Miriam Toews ( ; born May 21, 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of ten 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). Her memoir A Truce That Is Not Peace was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Toews lives in Toronto and is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
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- Full name: Miriam Toews
- Born: 1964-05-21
- Nationality: Canada
- Known as: Actor
- Wikidata ID: Q464236
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Who is Miriam Toews?
Miriam Toews ( ; born May 21, 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018).
What nationality is Miriam Toews?
Miriam Toews is Canada.
When was Miriam Toews born?
Miriam Toews was born on 1964-05-21.
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