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Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews (born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian novelist and humorist of Mennonite descent.
She studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King's College, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio journalist. Her 2004 novel A Complicated Kindness was her breakthrough work, spending several weeks on the Canadian bestseller lists and winning the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. The novel, about a teenage girl who longs to escape her small Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in New York City, was also nominated for the Giller Prize.
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