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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer. Her novels include A Complicated Kindness, Irma Voth and All My Puny Sorrows, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize. ‘Women Talking’ is taken from a novel of the same title which will be published by Faber & Faber in the UK, Bloomsbury in the US and Knopf in Canada.

Miriam Toews on Granta.com

Fiction | Issue 144

Fiction | Issue 144

Women Talking

Miriam Toews

‘When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 137

Essays & Memoir | Issue 137

Peace Shall Destroy Many

Miriam Toews

‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’

Miriam Toews on pacifism in Mennonite communities.