A Look at the Booker Prize for Literature
A Look at the Booker Prize for Literature I recently noted that Anne Michaels had been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for her novel Held (2023). I had read her earlier novel, Fugitive Pieces (1996), about the displacement of children during World War Two, some years ago and I had included discussion of it in a course I was teaching about Canadian Literature for The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). Held , published many years later and which I received as a Christmas present, is a very different book: it is an account of the development of the generations within a family, who are dealing with events from the early twe...