![]() ![]() Michaels conducted in-depth research on topics relating to history, archaeology, paleobotany and geology. Characters and situations formed from the questions. Questions related to historical events that Michaels believed were connected, though the connections were not apparent. It took 10 years to write and began with a cluster of questions that inherently had no answers. With such huge historic events guiding the story, Michaels felt a moral responsibility to tell it right. The novel follows the life of a Jewish boy, orphaned during the Second World War. ![]() She writes and she reads “in order to hold another human being close.” To embark on a journey with a reader and deliver him or her “to the other side.” To make a connection.Īccording to Michaels, the process of writing Fugitive Pieces taught her a lot about being a writer. Her lecture examined faith and failure, pain and love, memory and silence-themes apparent in her novels. ![]() ![]() 18 during a special convocation ceremony in which she received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from UVic. Canadian Anne Michaels,author of four poetry collections and two critically acclaimed novels- Fugitive Pieces (1996) and The Winter Vault (2009)-presented a President’s Distinguished Lecture Feb. ![]()
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