with Margaret Atwood, Novelist & poet
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Add to calendarAtwood on six decades of bad first pages, and why she stopped waiting for a good mood some time in the 1970s.
She brought a notebook and read two abandoned openings aloud, both terrible on purpose. The room applauded the second one for longer.
Atwood has published more than fifty books across six decades, fiction, poetry, essays and graphic novels, and still begins in longhand in the morning. She grew up partly in the bush of northern Quebec, an upbringing she credits for both her practicality and her interest in what people do when systems fail.
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Reading & Q&AUpcomingThe Handmaid's Tale · McClelland & Stewart, 1985
with Margaret Atwood, Novelist & poet
Booker Prize, 2000
Atwood reads from The Blind Assassin and takes questions on what a prize does and doesn't change.
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Festival stageUpcomingThe Testaments · Chatto & Windus, 2019
with Margaret Atwood, Novelist & poet
Booker Prize, 2000
Atwood on her clipping files, on being called a prophet, and on the archive behind the invention.
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