An Evening With Margaret Atwood ($10 admission ticket required)
Sunday, Nov. 08, 7:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Margaret Atwood
When Margaret Atwood’s most famous novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), won the first Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction published in the United Kingdom, she bristled at the suggestion it was science fiction. Poet, feminist, activist and public intellectual, Atwood returned to what she calls “speculative fiction” with Oryx and Crake (2003), a dystopian novel about genetic engineering that was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, The Year of the Flood (Doubleday) is another tale of social upheaval and environmental catastrophe set in the near future. One of the world’s most honored living writers, Atwood is the author of 14 novels, 17 poetry collections, nine volumes of short fiction as well as nonfiction and children’s books. The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Man Booker Prize, while Alias Grace won the 1996 Scotia Giller Prize. In 2008, Atwood gained wide attention for Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a finalist for the 2009 National Business Book Award, a Canadian literary prize.
Schedule
| Sunday, Nov. 08, 7:30 p.m. |
$10 |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
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