'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
Margaret Atwood (Author)
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. In 2020 she published Dearly,
her first collection of poetry for a decade.
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 USA 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 has also worked as a cartoonist,
illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in
Toronto, Canada.
Valerie Martin (Introducer)
Valerie Martin is the author of Set in Motion, A Recent Martyr,
Alexandra, The Consolation of Nature and Other Stories and Mary
Reilly, which has recently been made into a film. Born in Missouri
and raised in New Orleans, she has taught at various universities
including Mount Holyoke College and the University of
Massachusetts. She lives in Massachusetts and Rome.
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic'
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in science
fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela Carter
'Our of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' Peter Kemp,
Independent
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling' Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Powerful...admirable' Robert Irwin, Time Out
'Moving, vivid and terrifying. I only hope it's not prophetic'
Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Listener
'The Handmaid's Tale is both a superlative exercise in
science fiction and a profoundly felt moral story' Angela
Carter
'Our of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions,
brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' Peter Kemp,
Independent
'The images of brilliant emptiness are one of the most striking
aspects of this novel about totalitarian blindness...the effect is
chilling' Linda Taylor, Sunday Times
'Powerful...admirable' Robert Irwin, Time Out
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