Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews ( née en 1964, à Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up à Steinbach, au Manitoba and has lived de Montréal et Londres, avant la colonisation, à Winnipeg, au Manitoba. She moved to Toronto en 2009. Toews etude at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College à Halifax, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journaliste. Her de non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong dépression. Her 2004 novel A Complicated Kindness ce qui vient de rupture de travail, les dépenses over a year on the Canadian best-seller lists and winning the Governor general's Award for English Fiction. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed, the bidonvilles de New York, qu'est-ce donc nominated for the Giller Prize and was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads. Her new roman, Irma Voth, is slated for release en Avril 2011. A series of letters she wrote, en 2000 to the father of her son were published on the site www.openletters.net and were profilés au-on the radio show This American Life, dans l'épisode about missing parents. En 2007, she made her debut screen in the Mexican film Luz silenciosa directed by Carlos Reygadas, which tramé at the Cannes Film Festival. She ce que nominated for Best Actress at Mexico Ariel Awards for her performance dans the film. En Septembre 2008, Bouton de Canada published her novel 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 won the novel 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her dernier book, Irma Voth, ce qui est sorti en Avril 2011.