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Anne Michaels

December 2024

  • A protester is escorted off the stage during the Scotiabank Giller prizegiving in Toronto last year.

    From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors?

    Writers have been coming out against companies that fund awards, with serious implications for the books industry

November 2024

  • Percival Everett, whose novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

    Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

  • Rachel Kushner, Charlotte Wood, Anne Michaels, Samantha Harvey, Percival Everett and Yael van der Wouden.

    Observer book of the week
    Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

  • Writer Anne Michaels at the Brickworks in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Photo by Chloe Ellingson

    Books interview
    Anne Michaels: ‘Language can’t represent brutality’

  • The sisters are back … Anne-Marie Duff shot for the Observer Magazine before the release of the second series of Bad Sisters.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Observer Original Photography

    Gallery26

October 2024

  • The Booker prize shortlisted authors, clockwise from left: Yael van der Wouden, Rachel Kushner, Charlotte Wood, Samantha Harvey, Anne Michaels and Percival Everett.

    ‘I was on the way to a funeral when the idea came to me’: 2024’s Booker-shortlisted authors on the moment inspiration struck

    A tennis match, an underground cave, watching images of Earth from orbit … Rachel Kushner, Yael van der Wouden, Charlottte Wood, Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey and Anne Michaels reveal the genesis of their ideas

September 2024

  • The books which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.

    The Guardian view on the Booker prize shortlist: a cause for celebration

  • Booker prize shortlist 2024.

    Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

  • Justine Jordan

    Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

    Justine Jordan
  • Composite image of best paperbacks February 2024

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Stephen King, Anne Michaels and more

July 2024

  • Booker’s dozen … the 2024 prize longlisted titles.

    Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

    Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

November 2023

  • Harrogate in 1924.

    Held by Anne Michaels review – still master of her universe

  • Poetic images of a family in Held.

    Book of the day
    Held by Anne Michaels review – a kaleidoscopic family saga

April 2020

  • Illustration: Owen Gatley

    Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more

    Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

April 2016

  • Children's books
    The Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels and Emma Block - review

    Myth-hill: ‘it was a fun way to learn some new tricky words and I think it will also help me write more exciting stories myself’

January 2016

  • Children's books
    The Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne Michaels – review

    mangomix: ‘It was like I was experiencing all the adventures myself!’

December 2013

  • Anne Michaels

    Correspondences by Anne Michaels – review

    Anne Michaels's concertinaed pages of portraits and poetry contain a precise and bittersweet melancholy, writes Kate Kellaway

June 2009

  • Book club
    Guardian book club: Face to face with the author

    Review: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
    John Mullan hears the readers' responses

  • Book club
    Guardian book club: The morality of memory

    Week three: Anne Michaels on the slow emergence of Fugitive Pieces

  • Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces

    Book club
    Guardian book club: Anne Michaels

    John Mullan talks to the author about her novel Fugitive Pieces, and how she faced up to the fraught challenge of writing about the Holocaust

    Podcast38:17
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