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Miriam Toews ( born 1964 a Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has vissuto la loro utilità in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto nel 2009. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College di Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and giornalista radio. Indietro non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life che a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depressione. Her 2004 novel A Complicated Gentilezza che fa interferenza work, spending over a year on the Canadian bestseller list and winning the Governor general's Award for English Fiction. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape fa small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the slum di New York City, che cosa nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads. Her new novel, Irma Voth, is uscirà nelle sale for release nel mese di Aprile 2011. A series of letters she wrote nel 2000 to the father of her son were published on the web www.openletters.net and were profiled on the radio show This American Life in a episodio about missing parents. Nel 2007 she made her screen debut in the Mexican film Luz silenciosa directed by Carlos Reygadas, which selezioniamo at the Festival del cinema di Cannes. She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico s Ariel Awards for her performance in the film. Nel Settembre 2008, Il Canada published fa 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, la Fiction Prize. Fa newest book, Irma Voth, quello uscito nel mese di Aprile 2011.