Anne Michaels

Marita Grimwood (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 15 Apr 1958
Activity 1980-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Primary

Novelist
Poet

Resources

Anne Michaels is a major figure in contemporary Canadian literature. Toronto-based, she began her literary career as a poet but attained extensive international recognition with the publication of her first – and to date only – novel, Fugitive Pieces.

She was born in Toronto in 1958, the youngest of four children, with three older brothers. She grew up with a profound sense of the effect of the Second World War on the city’s immigrant population. Her father came from a Polish-Jewish family and left the Polish-Russian border in 1931 at the age of 13 to settle in Canada. He ran a music shop in Toronto while Michaels was growing up. Michaels studied English at the University of Toronto and went on to compose for …

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Citation: Grimwood, Marita. "Anne Michaels". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 June 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5365, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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