Toews's first novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996), finds humour and poignancy in unexpected locales. Toews has produced radio documentaries and has written for a number of magazines, garnering the 1999 National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Humour. She also completed a bachelor of journalism degree at the University of King's College, in Halifax. She returned to her home province to attend the University of Manitoba, where she earned a BA in film studies. Toews moved away from Steinbach as soon as she had finished high school, travelling and living in Montréal and then Europe. She provides a detailed description of life in this isolated, conservative religious community, and its impact on her family, in Swing Low: A Life (2000). Miriam Toews grew up in the Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. Miriam Toews, writer (born at Steinbach, Man 1964).
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