Anne Michaels

Michaels published two acclaimed poetry collections, The Weight of Oranges (winner of the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas) and the Governor General's Award-nominated Miner's Pond, before turning to fiction in her late thirties; she later served as Toronto's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2019.

Fugitive Pieces (1996), her first novel, moves in two parts: a boy who survives the Holocaust hidden near his Polish village and is adopted by a Greek geologist, and the son of survivors who investigates his life decades later. It won the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award, was translated into more than forty languages, and was adapted into a 2007 film.

She continues to write poetry and fiction from her native Toronto, where she has lived for most of her life.