28. Miriam Toews in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

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Miriam Toews is a national treasure. Her nine published novels, including A Complicated Kindness and Women Talking, have immersed us in the lives of unforgettable characters, brought to life with her trademark wit and profound humanity. Now, the bestselling author tells her own story in a breathtaking memoir of stunning emotional force. Beginning with a deceptively simple question—“why do you write?”—A Truce That Is Not Peace weaves through Toews’ grief over her sister’s suicide and her attempts to fill the silence left behind, ultimately arriving at an answer not only as to why she writes, but why she lives. She’s interviewed by another icon of Canadian letters: Eleanor Wachtel, the former host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts to celebrate the finalists and winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards. https://ggbooks.ca/

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Miriam Toews

MIRIAM TOEWS is the author of the internationally acclaimed and bestselling novels Fight Night, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and one prior work of non-fiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is the winner of numerous awards and several of her novels have been made into feature films, including All My Puny Sorrows and the Oscar-nominated Women Talking. Miriam Toews lives in Toronto.

Eleanor Wachtel

ELEANOR WACHTEL loves books and their authors and has managed to gagner her vie by sharing that passion. Five books of her interviews have been published, including Random Illuminations, a collection of reflections, correspondence, and conversations with Carol Shields; Original Minds; and for the show's twenty-fifth anniversary, The Best of Writers & Company. Last year she chaired the jury of the International Booker Prize.