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Internationally acclaimed Canadian novelist and poet Anne Michaels offers personal reflections on Held, a breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. Hear directly from the author about her latest awe-inspiring work, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize for and praised by Margaret Atwood: “Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity–its depths and shadows.” Spanning a century shaped and damaged by war the novel clutches beauty amongst brutality as each generations seeks love and transcendence.

Moderator: Sarah Polley

Generously supported by Beth Nowers and Jack Curtin & the Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation.

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Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels’s books have been translated into more than 45 languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She has been short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice short-listed for the Giller Prize and twice long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Photo credit: Marzena Pogorzaly.