Miriam Toews - Фильмы

Miriam Toews ( born 1964 в Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling в Виннипеге, Манитоба. She moved to Торонто в 2009. Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of king's College в Галифакс, and has also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio журналист. Her non-fiction book Swing Low: A Life was a memoir of her father, a victim of lifelong депрессии. Her novel 2004 A Complicated Kindness что her breakthrough work, spending over a year 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 Russian Mennonite town and hang out with Lou Reed in the трущоб of New York City, was also nominated for the Netherlands and Prize was the winning title in the 2006 edition of Canada Reads. Her new novel, вот Ирма, is slated for release в апреле 2011 года. A series of letters she wrote in 2000 to the father of her son were published on the website www.openletters.net and were on the profiled радио-шоу This American Life in an episode about missing parents. В 2007 she made her screen debut in the Mexican фильм Luz silenciosa directed by Carlos Reygadas, which экранированная at the Cannes Film Festival. She was nominated for Best Actress at mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance in the film. В сентябре 2008 года, Knopf Canada published her novel The Flying Troutmans, about a 28-year-old woman from Manitoba who takes her 15-year-old nephew and 11-year-old niece on a road trip to California after their mentally ill mother has been hospitalized. That won the novel 2008 Роджерс Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her newest book, Ирма вот, что выпущен в апреле 2011 года.