The best-selling book won the $5,000 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the $3,500 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards gala Saturday evening.
Toews's book, which tells the tale of a teenage southern Manitoba girl whose mother and sister have disappeared, won the $15,000 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 2004 and was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize for Fiction.
The 40-year-old writer's win marks the third time she has accepted the book of the year prize in the 17-year history of the awards, which are organized by the Manitoba Writers' Guild.
Author Miriam Toews
Other winners at the ceremony:
- Chandra Mayor won the $5,000 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award for her debut novel Cherry.
- Caelum Vatnsdal won the $2,000 John Hirsch Award for most promising Manitoba writer.
- Raymond M. Hebert and his Manitoba's French Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale won the $3,500 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.
- Lori Cayer won the $1,500 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book by a Manitoba writer for her poetry collection Stealing Mercury.
- Margaret Buffie won the $2,500 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for The Finder.
- The University of Manitoba Press's The Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba by Kenneth Stewart and Douglas Watkinson won the $1,000 Mary Scorer Award for best book by a Manitoba publisher and best illustrated book.
- 4 x 4, designed by Sharon Caseburg with cover by Tetro Design, won the Manuala Dias Book Design of the Year.
- Charles Leblanc won the $3,500 Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault Prize for his poetry collection L'appétit du compteur.
Organizers also presented a new honour: the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award, which honours a lifetime of excellence by a member of the Manitoba writing and publishing community. The inaugural award went to former Winnipegger Carol Shields, who died in 2003.
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