An Evening with Margaret Atwood Humanities Symposium Keynote Speaker
Location
Belmont Heights Baptist Church
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
27-10-2010 7:00 PM
Description
Margaret Atwood is a giant of modern literature who has anticipated, explored, satirized -- and even changed-- the popular preoccupations of our time. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, Atwood is the rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics, and studied on university campuses around the world. Though her subject matter varies, the precision crafting of her language -- she is also a renowned poet -- gives her body of work a sensibility entirely its own.
Based out of Toronto, Atwood has written over forty classic books, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her novels include Alias Grace, Life Before Man, Oryx and Crake, and 2009’s The Year of the Flood. Her major awards include The Giller and The Governor General’s Award (Canada), The Booker Prize (UK), The Dashiell Hammett Award (United States), and the Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre de Arts et Les Lettres (France).
Join us as Ms. Atwood offers a reading and discussion of her work. There will also be a period of questions and answers and a book signing.
Recommended Citation
Atwood, Margaret, "An Evening with Margaret Atwood Humanities Symposium Keynote Speaker" (2010). Humanities Symposium. 18.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2010/2010/18
An Evening with Margaret Atwood Humanities Symposium Keynote Speaker
Belmont Heights Baptist Church
Margaret Atwood is a giant of modern literature who has anticipated, explored, satirized -- and even changed-- the popular preoccupations of our time. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, Atwood is the rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics, and studied on university campuses around the world. Though her subject matter varies, the precision crafting of her language -- she is also a renowned poet -- gives her body of work a sensibility entirely its own.
Based out of Toronto, Atwood has written over forty classic books, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her novels include Alias Grace, Life Before Man, Oryx and Crake, and 2009’s The Year of the Flood. Her major awards include The Giller and The Governor General’s Award (Canada), The Booker Prize (UK), The Dashiell Hammett Award (United States), and the Le Chevalier dans l’Ordre de Arts et Les Lettres (France).
Join us as Ms. Atwood offers a reading and discussion of her work. There will also be a period of questions and answers and a book signing.
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