Miriam Toews, is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depression.

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  • Miriam Toews, is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depression. Her 2004 novel A Complicated Kindness was her breakthrough work, spending over a year on the Canadian bestseller lists and winning the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the slums of New York City, was also nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads. A series of letters she wrote in 2000 to the father of her son were published on the website www. openletters. net and were profiled on the radio show This American Life in an episode about missing parents. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the Mexican film Luz silenciosa 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. In September 2008, Knopf Canada published her novel The Flying Troutmans, about a 28-year-old woman from Manitoba who takes her 15-year-old nephew and 11-year-old niece on a road trip to California after their mentally ill mother has been hospitalized. That novel won the 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
  • Miriam Toews ist eine kanadische Schriftstellerin und freie Journalistin. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Winnipeg.
  • Miriam Toews est une romancière et une essayiste canadienne. Née à Steinbach au Manitoba, elle est de descendance mennonite. Elle a habité à Montréal et à Londres et elle réside maintenant à Winnipeg au Manitoba. Toews a étudié à l'Université du Manitoba au collège universitaire de King's College à Halifax. Elle a travaillé comme pigiste et animatrice de radio. Son roman Drôle de tendresse, publié en 2004, fut sa véritable percée littéraire, passant plus d'une année sur les listes de meilleurs vendeurs canadiens et gagnant le prix du Gouverneur général pour une œuvre de fiction en langue anglaise.
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  • Miriam Toews, is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College in Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depression.
  • Miriam Toews ist eine kanadische Schriftstellerin und freie Journalistin. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Winnipeg.
  • Miriam Toews est une romancière et une essayiste canadienne. Née à Steinbach au Manitoba, elle est de descendance mennonite. Elle a habité à Montréal et à Londres et elle réside maintenant à Winnipeg au Manitoba. Toews a étudié à l'Université du Manitoba au collège universitaire de King's College à Halifax. Elle a travaillé comme pigiste et animatrice de radio.
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