Join us in partnership with The Royal Society of Literature for two events with poet and novelist Anne Michaels. The second event will be an in conversation between Anne Michaels and Claire Messud. Chairing the conversation is the award-winning and international best-selling Turkish-British novelist Elif Shafak.
A conversation between two of contemporary literatures best and most beloved writers. Claire Messud’s This Strange and Eventful History and Anne Michaels’, Held are both hotly tipped and keenly anticipated books by every major publication. Each lyrically and breathtakingly offers narratives of huge historical scope, traversing borders, landscapes and generations. Each begins in a world war, tracing the fragments created in those moments, which haunt the generations that follow.
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