Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She is the author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), Women Talking (2018), and Fight Night (2021), and 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. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Silent Light (Stellet Licht), directed by Carlos Reygadas, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival. She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance in the film. Description above adapted from the Wikipedia article Miriam Toews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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