Biography
Miriam Toews was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, in 1964 and comes from a Mennonite family. She studied film and journalism in Winnipeg and Halifax and first worked as a freelance journalist for print and radio. She became internationally known with the novel A Complicated Kindness (2004), which won the Governor General's Award for Fiction; The Flying Troutmans and All My Puny Sorrows each won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her novel Women Talking (2018), published in German as Die Aussprache, follows eight women in a remote Mennonite colony who debate their future after years of sexual violence. Sarah Polley's film adaptation was released in 2022 and won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
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