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| Interview with Anne Michaels by Rachel Ogden ANNE MICHAELS is a writer’s writer. The Canadian laboured for a decade on her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, which won her (among a host of awards) the Orange Prize in 1997. Seven years on, Michaels has yet to publish a follow-up to her critically lauded début, displaying a dogged refusal to submit to the commercial pressures of the book business by churning out fiction on demand. What also makes writers respond to Michaels is her notorious reputation for withholding details of her personal life. For her, it would seem, the writing itself, her commitment to her art and the lives she writes about are paramount – taking precedence over home life, love life or even her role as a mother. In the flesh, however, Anne Michaels is quite removed from this portrait of a forbidding intellectual. We meet in the academic surroundings of a professor’s study at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, before Michaels gives a rare reading at a nearby café, and she talks affably and candidly about her experiences of being a writer and of what she hopes to achieve with her work. A small and incredibly softly-spoken woman, with masses of dark unruly curls, Michaels is dressed almost entirely in black, save for an Indian silk scarf knotted loosely around her neck. Her coat remains on throughout our interview, as if she might dart out of the room… For the whole interview, read Issue 22 » Subscribe! Go to » Anne Michaels' Method |
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For more on ANNE MICHAELS, go to www.library.utoronto.ca
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