Anne Michaels

b. 1958

2 standalone books

Anne Michaels, born 15 April 1958, is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. She has received numerous international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. Michaels has also been honored with honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and other distinctions. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Giller Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels won the 2019 Vine Award for Infinite Gradation, her first volume of non-fiction. She served as the poet laureate of Toronto from 2016 to 2019. She is best known for her novel Fugitive Pieces, which was adapted for the screen in 2007. Michaels won the 2024 Giller Prize for her novel Held.

Born

1958