Livi Michael

Livi Michael (15 March 1960, Manchester, UK), also known as Olivia Michael, is a British fiction writer who publishes children and adult novels. She attended Tameside College of Technology; University of Leeds and completed her B.A (English) with first-class honours in 1989. Her career as a novelist started with her first novel, Under a Thin Moon in 1992. In addition to her writing, Michael also worked as a university lecturer teaching creative writing, and ran reading groups about women's fiction. where she earned a dissertation named Towards a Theory of Working Class Writing: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair in the Context of Earlier Working Class Fiction. Livi Michael completed her second novel while teaching English literature and creative writing part-time at Manchester Metropolitan University until 1998.

Writing influences One of her influences comes from the fact that she was raised in a single-parent home by her mother and was a single mother herself, which made her aware of the effects of poverty on women's lives. She highlights the world of poor and working-class women through the characters in her novels. Political elements such as capitalism and patriarchy are prominent in the novel, and criticised for the impoverished state of the women as they struggle with poverty and unemployment. who escapes from his cage and undertakes an adventurous journey to meet the mysterious black hamster of Narkiz.

Awards and honors Books !! Awards