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Miriam Toews About the author Her best-selling novels, which include Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness, have won numerous literary awards: the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Georgia Toews (/ ˈ t eɪ v z / ⓘ, born April 20, 1990) is a Canadian novelist.Her debut novel Hey, Good Luck Out There was published in 2022.. Toews is frequently depicted in novels by her mother Miriam Toews, including as the teenage character Nora Von Riesen who has "archly lacerating exchanges" with her mother in All My Puny Sorrows (2014, adapted for film in 2021).
All My Puny Sorrows is the sixth novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.The novel won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize.
Miriam Toews is the author of seven bestselling novels: Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust ...
Miriam Toews, född 21 maj 1964 i Steinbach, Kanada är en kanadensisk författare, och journalist, bosatt i Toronto [6]. Toews växte upp i mennonitrörelsen Kleine Gemeinde i Manitoba . Toews har studerat film vid University of Manitoba och journalistik vid University of King's College, Hallifax [ 7 ] .
Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: [1] Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep.
A Complicated Kindness (2004) is the third novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews. The novel won the Governor General's Award for English Fiction, the CBA Libris Fiction Award , and CBC 's Canada Reads .