Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer whose novels include A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). Her fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011), grew out of her leading role in the film Silent Light, and her memoir A Truce That Is Not Peace was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She has won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and twice won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and she lives in Toronto.