# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miriam-toews
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:32.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miriam-toews"
name: "Miriam Toews"
slug: "miriam-toews"
description: "Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer and author of ten books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018). 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. Toews is also a three-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize."
tagline: "Canadian writer known for novels set in the Mennonite community"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miriam_Toews_2015_(19269944925).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2700470"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump