Anne Michaels

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Salman Rushdie, Anne Michaels and Madeleine Thien among writers at 2025 Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal • Apr. 16, 2025, 11:47 PM ET (CBC)

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Born	April 15, 1958 (age 67) • Toronto • Canada
Awards And Honors	Women’s Prize for Fiction (1997)
Notable Works	“All We Saw” • “Correspondences” • “Fugitive Pieces” • “Miner’s Pond” • “The Weight of Oranges” • “The Winter Vault”

Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Sue Goyette

Canadian poet and novelist

Susan Musgrave

American-born author

Al Purdy

Canadian author

Isabella Valancy Crawford, lithograph

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Canadian poet

James Crerar Reaney

Canadian writer

John Glassco

Canadian author

William Kirby.

William Kirby

Canadian writer

Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

Canadian writer

Martha Ostenso

Canadian author

Lisa Robertson

Canadian poet and essayist

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

Canadian author

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff

Canadian political leader

Thomas King

American-born Canadian writer and photographer

Alistair MacLeod

Canadian author and educator

Hébert, Anne

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Pratt, E.J.

E.J. Pratt

Canadian poet

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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