Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels' debut novel Fugitive Pieces was an international bestseller and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest novel is The Winter Vault.
From her Q & A with Anna Metcalfe in the Financial Times:
Who are your literary influences?Read the complete Q & A.Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova; John Berger, Shakespeare, Joyce and the American poet Charles Wright.
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What novel would you give a child to introduce them to literature?
Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals.
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What book changed your life?
John Berger’s To the Wedding for the depth of its humanity. Few writers can convey such profound humanism. It’s a beautiful book.
--Marshal Zeringue
