Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews ( nacido en 1964 en Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up en Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived en Montreal y Londres, antes de estabilización en Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto en 2009. Toews estudios en el at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College en Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and periodista radio. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life, lo que a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong depresión. Her 2004 novel A Complicated la Bondad, lo que breakthrough de trabajo, el gasto over a year on the Canadian best-seller lists and winning the Governor general's Award for English Ficción. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape de la fabrica de small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed en the slums of New York City, y por lo tanto nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads. Her new novel, Irma Voth, is slated for release en Abril de 2011. A series of letters she wrote, en 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, en el episodio about missing parents. En 2007 she made her screen debut en the Mexican película Luz silenciosa dirigida por Carlos Reygadas, which screened at the Festival de Cine de Cannes. "She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance en the film. En Septiembre de 2008, Botón Canada published her novela The Flying Troutmans, about a 28-year-old woman from Manitoba who takes her 15-year-old and nephew 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 Fiction Prize. Her now book, Irma Voth, lo publicado en Abril de 2011.