Miriam Toews
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Miriam Toews is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, Irma Voth, The Flying Troutmans, A Complicated Kindness, A Boy of Good Breeding, and Summer of My Amazing Luck, and one prior work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award. Several of her novels have been made into feature films, including All My Puny Sorrows and the Oscar-nominated Women Talking. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- A Truce That Is Not Peace (2025)
- Women Talking (2018)
- Literary Luncheon<br> with Miriam Toews <br>A fundraiser for <br>Children’s Literacy (2014)
- Where You Stumble<br> with Jonathan Bennett, <br>Arjun Basu <br>and Miriam Toews (2014)
- Is It Hard to be Funny? <br>with Christian McPherson <br>and Miriam Toews (2011)
- Hell Is Other People <br>with Johanna Skibsrud,<br> Helen Oyeyemi <br>and Miriam Toews (2011)