Anne Michaels
Anne Michaels ( born April 15, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian writer and poet. She studied English (BA 1980) at the University of Toronto where he is a lecturer in creative writing. She has composed for the theater.
Michaels was first known as a poet. In 1980 she was awarded the Norma Epstein Award for Poetry. Then she published her first book of poetry The Weight of Oranges, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas was in 1986. The sequel, Miner's Pond ( 1991), was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and won the National Magazine Award and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Poetry. Her third book of poetry, Skin Divers, published in 1999.
The main theme Michaels' is to heal the love in its various forms and their assets. The language which he considered unique to describe their ability, loss and pain, thereby allowing memory. Her first poems were personally held to the autobiographical overtones. Later, the viewing angles are in addition other, eg of people in the past ( Alfred Doblin, Johannes Kepler, Karen Blixen, Anna Akhmatova, Marie Curie ). In their easy floating free verse often used metaphors from natural science. Add a sprinkling of thoughts poetry which you salutation prevails.
Your published in German novel Fugitive Pieces (1996 ) has continued to this day acting Jewish suffering through the German ( Nazi era ) on the subject. She says: When I started the book, I did not know if I would come out on the other side with something like a faith. That was a big risk. I thought I needed so much time for the book because I was determined to emerge with a confidence of it, that I had fought for himself, and not with a faith that exists only out of habit or is simply asserted.
The novel Fugitive Pieces tells the story of the relationship of a Jewish man to different people, through which the fragments ( " fugitive pieces " ) but combine his life as a refugee in the end even a whole. After the death of the protagonist, a young man follows in his footsteps, the son of a Holocaust survivor ( not experienced myself ) the ominous legacy of terror had to play. Woven into the plot of the novel is the fate of a Greek geologist who has been involved in archaeological excavations of the Iron Age settlement Biskupin in the 1930s and by fleeing to Greece saved the life of the child's protagonists.
The novel was a worldwide bestseller and was translated into 30 languages. He received several awards, including the British Orange Prize for Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, the Toronto Book Awards, the Trillium Book Award, the "Books in Canada First Novel Award," the " Guardian Fiction Award " and the Italian Price " Giuseppe Acerbi ". The NYT chose him as "Notable Book of the Year." There is a stage adaptation. A film adaptation, directed by Jeremy Podeswa entitled Fugitive Pieces was published in 2007.
Works
- The Weight of Oranges. Coach House Press, Toronto 1985. ( Poems)
- Miner's Pond: Poems. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1991.
- Fugitive Pieces. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1996. Fugitive Pieces, dt of Beatrice Howeg, Berlin: Berlin Verlag 1996 ISBN 3-570-19525-2.
- Winter vault, dt Nora Matocza and Gerhard Falkner, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8270-0534-2