One of Canada’s most famous authors is coming to the Comox Valley.
Margaret Atwood will be speaking at Courtenay’s Florence Filberg Centre at 4 pm on June 2, hosted by the Comox Valley Writers Society (CVWS).
Atwood will read from her latest work, a collection of short stories called Old Babes in the Wood. Following the reading, Stewart Goodings, a local author, will interview her using questions (that were) submitted on the ticket registration forms.
Atwood is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, a global number-one bestseller that won the Booker Prize. Other novels include Cat’s Eye, Surfacing, The Robber Bride, The Edible Woman, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and the MaddAddam trilogy.
In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. She has won innumerable 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.
Atwood lives in Toronto. Several of her works have been adapted for film and television. She is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers’ Trust of Canada.
The CVWS is delighted to be able to bring an author of this calibre to Courtenay.
It is especially exciting that the event will take place in 2024, the society’s 60th anniversary. Tickets can be purchased online only through the CVWS website at: https://cvwriterssociety.ca.