A Conversation with Margaret Atwood
Author of The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood has been sharing the power of the written word since publication of her first novel, The Edible Woman, in 1969. She has crafted more than 50 volumes of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature.
Atwood’s work has been published in more than 40 languages. She has garnered worldwide acclaim, recognized with the Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General’s Award, the PEN Pinter Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
The critically acclaimed television version of her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale earned 54 Emmy nominations and 15 awards. The series has been renewed for a fifth
season. The
dystopian work’s follow-up novel, The Testaments, sold out its initial half-million copy run, requiring two additional printings in
just over a week and breaking first-day sales records for
Penguin Random House titles that year.
Other screen adaptations of Atwood’s literary favorites include the Netflix limited series Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, which Hulu has in development.
A Conversation with Margaret Atwood is free and open to the public. Seats are expected to fill quickly, so online reservations are strongly recommended.
Note that photos and videos are not permitted at this event.
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Richard Boada
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Jason Schneiderman
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Howard Norman
Lannan Award winner Howard Norman is a novelist, memoirist, and children’s author. His works include the memoir I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place and the novel The Ghost Clause. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and awarded the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation from the Academy of American Poets.
Poupeh Missaghi
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Zach Linge
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Alice Sola Kim
Alice Sola Kim’s writing has appeared in publications such as The Cut, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Lightspeed, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017. She has received grants and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the MacDowell Colony and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and won a 2016 Whiting Award.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of multiple books, including Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, The Circle, A Hologram for the King and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Alex Burns
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Ben Lerner
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Jean McGarry
Jean McGarry's professional experience includes author, newspaper reporter, translator and university professor. McGarry’s stories have appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review and The New Yorker, among others.
Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli won the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction 2016. Her works have appeared in 14 languages and multiple publications, including The New Yorker, Asymptote, McSweeney and Granta.
Henry Veggian
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