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Miriam Toews ( / ˈteɪvz / ⓘ; born 1964) OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine 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.
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Mar 18, 2019 · Before Miriam Toews can sit down to write, she needs to walk. Something about the body in motion limbers up the mind and suggests that it should get moving, too. When she is working on a book, she ...
- Alexandra Schwartz
Aug 18, 2018 · Miriam Toews describes her latest book as an “imagined response” to crimes perpetrated against Mennonite women in Bolivia. Toews (pronounced “Taves”) grew up in a small Mennonite town ...
- Katrina Onstad
Mar 28, 2019 · TORONTO — Miriam Toews woke up the other night, her heart racing. She wasn’t having another dream about her sister’s violent death, or her father’s, or the rapes suffered by the women at ...
Mar 31, 2019 · Miriam Toews' new novel is based on an awful true story: The drugging and rape of women in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia. Toews says she wanted to show the women as real humans, not isolated cultists.
Sep 14, 2022 · The novel. Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background.
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Oct 7, 2021 · Miriam Toews based the women of Fight Night on the women in her own life — her battles are their battles; against pompous religious leaders, abusive husbands and the lies depression can tell.
