Her book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome prize, which on Wednesday went to Marion Coutts’s account of her husband’s terminal illness, The Iceberg.īut while All My Puny Sorrows, which is very funny, may not be a natural award-winner – prizes generally require books to be serious and literary, as if the two things were one and the same – it has captured the hearts of critics and readers alike this year, bringing its Canadian author a new level of recognition in Britain. Neither of us is really expecting it to win (“Believe me, I know,” she says, breezily), and sure enough, later that evening the prize goes to Akhil Sharma for his quietly devastating Family Life. I meet Miriam Toews as she is awaiting the announcement of the Folio prize, for which her novel All My Puny Sorrows has been shortlisted.
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