Miriam Toews

Margaret Steffler (Trent University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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Born 1964
Activity 1996-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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The Canadian novelist Miriam Toews received widespread recognition and praise for her third novel,

A Complicated Kindness

(2004), set in a Mennonite town closely modelled on her hometown of Steinbach, Manitoba. Since 2004 Toews has been celebrated nationally and internationally for her writing about Mennonite communities and cultures, which she sharply criticizes but also holds in deep affection. Toews was awarded the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award in 2010, which recognizes the remarkable work of a mid-career writer, and the Writers’ Trust Fellowship in 2016 in acknowledgement of her outstanding creativity and promise. With the publication of

Women Talking

in 2018, Toews’s body of work consists of seven novels and one memoir.

Toews’s first two novels, The Summer of My Amazing

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Citation: Steffler, Margaret. "Miriam Toews". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 November 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14507, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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