Miriam Toews is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, humourist and actor of Mennonite descent whose work has garnered international awards. Holding degrees in the arts and journalism, her writing encompasses both fiction and non-fiction in the genres of novel, memoir, magazine, newspaper and radio. She is the recipient of four McNally Robinson Book of the Year Awards for her novels Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996), Boy of Good Breeding (1998), Swing Low: A Life (2001) and A Complicated Kindness, her 2004 breakthrough novel. It also won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and a film version of the novel is to be made in Winnipeg next year. She made her screen debut in the Mexican film Luz silenciosa which won the 2007 Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Her 2008 novel, The Flying Troutmans won the Rogers Writers Trust Prize for Fiction and she received the 2010 Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award for her overall body of work. Miriam Toews is presently on a promotional tour for her latest novel, Irma Voth.
