WRITER

Anne Michaels

1958 - Today

Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Michaels has received more than 119,674 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Michaels is the 7,089th most popular writer, the 1,050th most popular biography from Canada and the 51st most popular Canadian Writer.

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120k
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Languages Editions (L)
2.40
Effective Languages (L*)
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Notable Works

The Adventures of Miss Petitfour

Children's fiction

2015

Dream of Me & Believe in Me

Fiction, Saxons, Vikings

Book 1- Dream of Me, Viking leader Wolf Hakonson hopes to forge a lasting alliance between his people and the Saxons. When Lady Cymbra (a beautiful, gifted healer whose brother is the powerful Saxon Lord Hawk) refuses his offer of a marriage alliance, he turns to guile to fulfill his dream of peace. While he poses as Cymbra's prisoner, he plans to capture her heart -- and claim her hand in marriage. Lord Hawk is the hero. Book 2- Believe in Me, Like his sister, Cymbra, he has agreed to marry to aid the peace process. But his promised Viking bride, Krysta, seems to be in no hurry to arrive. Finally, three of Krysta's servants come: an old woman named Raven, a troll-like man, and a beautiful young woman -- but there is more to each of them than meets the eye.

2001

The winter vault

Fiction, Engineers in fiction, Engineering in fiction

Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels gives us a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, a mesmerizing tale that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives.In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple as it's rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. He is a "machine-worshipper," yet exquisitely sensitive to the dichotomy of creation and destruction of which machines are capable. Jean is a botanist by avocation and passion, interested in everything that grows. They had met on the banks of the St. Lawrence River and watched together as the construction of the seaway changed the course of the river and swallowed towns, homes, lives. Now, at the edge of another world about to be lost forever, Avery and Jean create their own world, exchanging the "moments that are the mortar of our days, innocent memories we don't know we hold until given the gift of the eagerness of another."But that gift will not be enough to bind them when tragedy strikes, and they will go back to separate lives in Toronto. Avery returns to school to study architecture, and Jean enters the life of Lucjan, a Polish emigre artist. Lucjan's haunting stories of occupied Warsaw draw Jean further and further away from Avery. But, in time, he will also offer her the chance for forgiveness, consolation, and, finally, her own, most essential life.Stunning in its explorations of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, The Winter Vault is a radiant work of fiction.From the Hardcover edition.

2009

Fugitive Pieces

Fiction, general, Jews, fiction, Poland, fiction

1997

Sarah

Through turbulent Civil War America, she fought for freedom...and the promise of love With a spirited mix of Yankee pride and a fiery independence that was all her own, Sarah MacKenzie vowed never to marry -- and pledged herself to the blazing issues of the day. The champion of mill workers and a fierce opponent of slavery, she speaks her mind as well as any man. But when she meets Philip Calvert, as proud and mysterious as his native South, she discovers desire she has never known. More, she sees in him a kindred spirit, united in the belief that no man should be the slave of another. But only in the face of cataclysmic war does Sarah discover her true courage as a woman, and the awesome power of love.

1987

Fugitive pieces

World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Literature

1996