Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews has written several novels and a memoir. Her breakthrough book, A Complicated Kindness, which won the Governor General's award, was nominated for the Giller Prize, and was named a Canada Reads title. The Flying Troutmans, which followed several of the same narrative threads, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2007, she made her acting debut in a film about Mexican Mennonites, a project that planted the seed for her most recent novel, Irma Voth, published this spring by Knopf Canada. Toews grew up in Steinbach, lived for many years in Winnipeg, and now calls Toronto home.