A Complicated Kindness is the third novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.
 The novel won a number of awards including the Governor General's Award for English Fiction, the CBA Libris Fiction Award, and CBC's Canada Reads.
Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters.
 It is the author's second novel, following "Tipping the Velvet", and followed by "Fingersmith".
The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters.
 It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s.
 Departing from her earlier themes of lesbian and gay fiction, Waters' fifth novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with an old gentry family of declining fortunes who own a very old estate that is crumbling around them.
 The stress of reconciling the state of their finances with the familial responsibility of keeping the estate coincides with perplexing events which may or may not be of supernatural origin, culminating in tragedy.
Irma Voth is the fifth novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.
 The novel, about a Mennonite teenager whose life is transformed when a bohemian film crew comes to her settlement to make a film about Mennonites, was informed by Toews' experience as lead actress in "Silent Light", the award-winning film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker, Carlos Reygadas.
All My Puny Sorrows is the sixth novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.
 The novel won the 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize.
 Toews has said that the novel draws heavily on the events leading up to the 2010 suicide of her sister, Marjorie.
Sarah Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.
 She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as "Tipping the Velvet" and "Fingersmith".
Miriam Toews ( ; born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novels "A Complicated Kindness" and "All My Puny Sorrows".
 She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for body of work.
 She is also a two-time finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a two-time winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
The Paying Guests is a 2014 novel by Welsh author Sarah Waters.
 It was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and named 'Fiction Book of the Year' by "The Sunday Times" who said that "this novel magnificently confirms Sarah Waters' status as an unsurpassed fictional recorder of vanished eras and hidden lives."
The Night Watch is a dark, 2006 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters.
 It was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.
 The novel, which is told backward through third person narrative, takes place in 1940s London during and after World War II.
 The storyline follows the fragmented lives and the strange interconnections between Kay, Helen and Julia, three lesbians, Viv, a straight woman and Duncan, her brother, a gay man - their secrets, shames and scandals.
 The war, with its never ending night watches serves as a horrifying context, backdrop and metaphor as a constant reminder of the morbidity that surrounds life and love.
Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama serial based on the best-selling debut novel by Sarah Waters of the same name.
 It originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Sally Head Productions.
 It stars Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, and Jodhi May.

Question: Are both Sarah Waters and Miriam Toews novelists?
Answer: yes