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 international awards including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and twice longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels won a 2019 Vine Award for Infinite Gradation, her first volume of non-fiction. Michaels was 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.