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Miriam Toews (), (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) 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. She moved to Toronto in 2009.

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.

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Total Books: 76
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780345808004
ISBN-10: 0345808002
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
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A Boy of Good Breeding
A Boy of Good Breeding (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780571229819
ISBN-10: 0571229816
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A Boy of Good Breeding A Novel
A Boy of Good Breeding a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781640091795
ISBN-10: 1640091793
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Ce qu'elles disent
Ce Qu'elles Disent (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782764625828
ISBN-10: 2764625820
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Complicated Kindness
A Complicated Kindness (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780571223992
ISBN-10: 0571223990
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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A Complicated Kindness A Novel
A Complicated Kindness a Novel (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781640091412
ISBN-10: 1640091416
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Die fliegenden Trautmans
Die Fliegenden Trautmans (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783827008077
ISBN-10: 3827008077
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Drle de tendresse
Drle De Tendresse (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782283032497
ISBN-10: 2283032490
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe
Ein Komplizierter Akt Der Liebe (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783827005984
ISBN-10: 3827005981
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Fight Night
Fight Night (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780571370726
ISBN-10: 0571370721
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Flying Troutmans
The Flying Troutmans (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780307397492
ISBN-10: 0307397491
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Flying Troutmans
The Flying Troutmans (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781582434391
ISBN-10: 1582434395
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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The Flying Troutmans
The Flying Troutmans (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781607519270
ISBN-10: 1607519275
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Flying Troutmans A Novel
The Flying Troutmans a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781640091467
ISBN-10: 1640091467
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Flying Troutmans The Premium
Flying Troutmans the Premium (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780307400901
ISBN-10: 0307400905
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Irma Voth
Irma Voth (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780307400680
ISBN-10: 0307400689
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Irma Voth A Novel
Irma Voth a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780062070180
ISBN-10: 0062070185
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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Kleinstadtknatsch
Kleinstadtknatsch (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783827007315
ISBN-10: 3827007313
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Mi chiamo Irma Voth
Mi Chiamo Irma Voth (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788871686295
ISBN-10: 8871686292
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Pauvres Petits Chagrins
Pauvres Petits Chagrins [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782764623312
ISBN-10: 2764623313
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Summer of My Amazing Luck
Summer of My Amazing Luck (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780676978476
ISBN-10: 0676978479
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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