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Any given moment-no matter how casual, how ordinary-is poised, full of gaping life.
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Birth: | 15th April, 1958 |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges, a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth Prize. She received the National Magazine Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and a nomination for the Governor General's Award for her second collection, Miner's Pond. Michaels has written two novels.
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