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Miriam Toews (/ ˈ t eɪ v z / ⓘ; 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 ...
Toews' novel centers on the secret meetings of eight Mennonite women who, on behalf of the other women in the colony, must decide how to react to these traumatic events. They have only 48 hours before the colony men, who are away to post bail for the rapists, return.
Mar 18, 2019 · Alexandra Schwartz on Miriam Toews, the wickedly funny and fearlessly honest Canadian novelist who left the church and freed her voice.
- Alexandra Schwartz
Sep 14, 2022 · 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. Women Talking,...
- Esther Zuckerman
Mar 11, 2023 · Miriam Toews’s Oscars moment exposes a complicated relationship with her Mennonite hometown - The Globe and Mail. Steinbach, Man., still largely shuns the author whose stories of Mennonite life...
- Nancy Macdonald
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 the center...
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.
