She left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and London before settling in Winnipeg. As a teenager, Toews rode horses and took part in provincial dressage and barrel-racing competitions and attended high school at the Steinbach Regional Secondary School. Loewen, an entrepreneur who founded a lumber business that would become Loewen Windows. Her mother, Elvira Loewen, is a daughter of the late C. Reimer (1837–1906), who arrived in Manitoba in 1874 from Ukraine. Toews, she is a direct descendant of one of Steinbach's first settlers, Klaas R. Toews grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada the second daughter of Mennonite parents, both part of the Kleine Gemeinde. Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light, written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize, an experience that informed her fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011). Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for her body of work. Miriam Toews ( / ˈ t eɪ v z/ ( listen) born 1964) OM is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018).
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