Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer. She won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel, A Complicated Kindness, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans. In 2010, she received the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work. She had a leading role in the feature film, Silent Light, directed by Carlos Reygadas, an experience that inspired her fifth novel, Irma Voth.