Margaret Atwood, author portrait
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Margaret Atwood

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.

Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to litera­ture. She lives in Toronto.

The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

Thu Nov 06 | 07:00 PM
Books Are Magic - offsite at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Sat Nov 08 | 07:00 PM
Chicago Humanities Festival offsite at Francis W. Parker School
330 W. Webster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
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The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

Events

Thu Nov 06 | 07:00 PM
Books Are Magic - offsite at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Google Map

Sat Nov 08 | 07:00 PM
Chicago Humanities Festival offsite at Francis W. Parker School
330 W. Webster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614
Google Map