Canadian · b. 1958
Anne Michaels won the Orange Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize for "Fugitive Pieces," a novel about a Holocaust survivor raised by a Greek geologist on a remote island. The Canadian poet writes prose with a poet's attention to sound and image, creating fiction where landscape and memory intertwine. "Held," her 2024 novel, earned the Booker Prize, decades after her debut established her reputation. Michaels publishes rarely and each book earns the wait.