Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction for Swing Low: A Life 2000 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for Swing Low: A Life 2004 Governor General's Award for A Complicated Kindness 2004 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist for A Complicated Kindness 2004 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for A Complicated Kindness 2004 The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction for A Complicated Kindness 2005 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year for A Complicated Kindness 2006 Winner CBC Canada Reads 2006 for A Complicated Kindness 2006 Honorary Doctorate of Literature, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans 2010 Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award 2010 Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2012 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction finalist for Irma Voth 2013 Order of Manitoba 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for All My Puny Sorrows 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist for All My Puny Sorrows 2015 Folio Prize shortlist for All My Puny Sorrows 2015 Wellcome Book Prize shortlist for All My Puny Sorrows 2015 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction for All My Puny Sorrows 2015 Sinbad Prize (Italy) for Foreign Fiction for I miei piccoli dispiaceri (All My Puny Sorrows) 2016 Writers' Trust of Canada Fellowship 2018 Governor General's Award shortlist for Women Talking 2021 Giller Prize shortlist for Fight Night Notes and references External links Toews blurb and calendar at publisher Random House Toews blurb at publisher Harper Collins 1964 births Living people Canadian humorists Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Kleine Gemeinde Mennonite writers Mennonite humorists Members of the Order of Manitoba Writers from Steinbach, Manitoba Writers from Winnipeg University of King's College alumni University of Manitoba alumni Canadian Mennonites Women humorists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian people of German-Ukrainian descent