with Margaret Atwood — Novelist & poet
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Add to calendarAtwood reads from The Blind Assassin and takes questions on what a prize does and doesn't change.
Best line of the night, on being called a prophet: 'It isn't prophecy, it's filing.' We put it on the poster.
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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In conversationUpcomingThe Blind Assassin · McClelland & Stewart, 2000
with Margaret Atwood — Novelist & poet
Booker Prize, 2000
Atwood on six decades of bad first pages, and why she stopped waiting for a good mood some time in the 1970s.
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In conversationUpcomingThe Blind Assassin · McClelland & Stewart, 2000
with Margaret Atwood — Novelist & poet
Booker Prize, 2000
Sixty listeners, one notebook, and three hours on revision, contracts and staying curious.
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