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Miriam Toews was born in 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba. She received a B.A. in film studies from the University of Manitoba and a B.A. in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax. Toews lives in Winnipeg.

Books by Miriam Toews

	1996 Summer of My Amazing Luck
	1998 A Boy of Good Breeding
	2000 Swing Low: A Life
	2004 A Complicated Kindness Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel lives in the Mennonite community of East Village, Manitoba and she's not happy about it.
	2008 The Flying Troutmans
	2011 Irma Voth
	2014 All My Puny Sorrows
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2006 – A Complicated Kindness – Winner

• Giller Prize
  • 2004 – A Complicated Kindness – Shortlisted
  • 2014 – All My Puny Sorrows – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 2004 – A Complicated Kindness – Winner

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2008 – The Flying Troutmans – Winner
  • 2014 – All My Puny Sorrows – Winner

• Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
  • 2010 Winner

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Added 16 November 2005.
Updated 27 January 2015.