Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews (ON, Canada) is the author of five bestselling novels: Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, which was a Canada Reads Canadian Bestseller of the Decade 2010, The Flying Troutmans and Irma Voth. The author has also produced one work of non-fiction, titled Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction, Canada Reads 2006, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers’ Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. At Wordfest, Toews presents her much-anticipated novel, All My Puny Sorrows, the riveting story of two sisters and a love that illuminates life.