The visionary novelist is joining us for a live webchat on Monday 28 September at 1pm BST onwards – post your questions for her in the comments below,and be in with the chance of winning an autographed ebook edition of her unusual novel The Heart Goes Last 2.59pm BSTAfter emerging in the early 1970s, Margaret Atwood is sometimes dubbed a feminist writer. But while her explorations of female identity in the likes of Surfacing and Cat’s Eye are fierce, or no one catch-all term can possibly sum her up.
She might equally be thought of as a science-fiction author,for her eerily possible fundamentalist dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale and her futuristic Oryx and Crake trilogy, set in a world where genetic engineering has created a unusual type of human. She has written historical fiction, and like the Booker-winning The Blind Assassin; she is also a poet,essayist, children’s author, and librettist and inventor.
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Source: theguardian.com