Anne Michaels is a poet and author.
The Toronto-born poet and author is recognized for her novel, Held, which weaves together historical figures and events.Canadian author Anne Michaels is among the six authors shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
Michaels is a writer of poetry and fiction whose books have been translated into more than 45 languages and whose work has been adapted for the screen and the theatre. She is the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
"We have spent months sifting, challenging, questioning – stopped in our tracks by the power of the contemporary fiction that we have been privileged to read," wrote de Waal in a press statement. "And here are the books that we need you to read. Great novels can change the reader. They face up to truths and face you in their turn."
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