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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
Fight Night
2023 - Fight Night (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781635579789
ISBN-10: 1635579783
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Drle de tendresse
2021 - Drle De Tendresse (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782283032497
ISBN-10: 2283032490
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Women Talking
2020 - Women Talking (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781635574340
ISBN-10: 163557434X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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All My Puny Sorrows
2019 - All My Puny Sorrows (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781635574975
ISBN-10: 1635574978
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Irma Voth
2019 - Irma Voth (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780571341030
ISBN-10: 0571341039
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Ce qu'elles disent
2019 - Ce Qu'elles Disent (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782764625828
ISBN-10: 2764625820
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Summer of My Amazing Luck A Novel
2019 - Summer of My Amazing Luck a Novel (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781640091856
ISBN-10: 1640091858
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Boy of Good Breeding A Novel
2019 - A Boy of Good Breeding a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781640091795
ISBN-10: 1640091793
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Flying Troutmans A Novel
2019 - The Flying Troutmans a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781640091467
ISBN-10: 1640091467
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A Complicated Kindness A Novel
2019 - A Complicated Kindness a Novel (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781640091412
ISBN-10: 1640091416
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Women Talking A Novel
2018 - Women Talking a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780735273962
ISBN-10: 0735273960
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Christian Books & Bibles
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A Complicated Kindness
2017 - A Complicated Kindness (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780735273955
ISBN-10: 0735273952
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Un complicato atto d'amore
2017 - Un Complicato Atto D'amore (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788871687827
ISBN-10: 8871687825
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Pauvres Petits Chagrins
2015 - Pauvres Petits Chagrins [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782764623312
ISBN-10: 2764623313
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Mi chiamo Irma Voth
2012 - Mi Chiamo Irma Voth (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788871686295
ISBN-10: 8871686292
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Swing Low A Life
2011 - Swing Low a Life (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780062070166
ISBN-10: 0062070169
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Fitness & Dieting
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Irma Voth A Novel
2011 - Irma Voth a Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780062070180
ISBN-10: 0062070185
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 4

The Flying Troutmans
2009 - The Flying Troutmans (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781582435312
ISBN-10: 1582435316
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 6

The Flying Troutmans
2008 - 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
2008 - The Flying Troutmans (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781607519270
ISBN-10: 1607519275
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Kleinstadtknatsch
2007 - Kleinstadtknatsch (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783827007315
ISBN-10: 3827007313
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