Margaret Atwood

Canadian author and poet Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work.

Zombie Blizzard includes recitations by Margaret Atwood and songs composed by Aaron Davis on the texts of 7 poems from the 2020 publication Dearly: Zombie, Blizzard, Health Class, Princess Clothing, Shadow, Digging up the Scythians, and Dearly. This album has a unique blending of the classical concert aria and jazz-influenced art song in which composer Aaron Davis uses the visceral poetry of Margaret Atwood to tackle issues of sexism, humour, gender inequality, and grief.

For decades, Margaret Atwood has been universally acclaimed as Canada's greatest living writer. Fearlessly outspoken in life and in her work, Atwood has always been an unrelenting provocateur. Now at the age of 77, her star shines brighter and bolder than ever with an explosive television adaptation of her best-known work The Handmaid's Tale, which was first published in 1985. It is a dystopian work of speculative fiction set in the future, which has drawn comparison with aspects of Donald Trump's leadership, in particular the charges of misogyny which have inflamed anti-Trump campaigners across America.

In diesem Jahr feiert Margaret Atwood ihren siebzigsten Geburtstag und legt einen Roman vor, der nicht nur einmal mehr ihren klaren Verstand offenbart, die Vielschichtigkeit und Lebendigkeit ihrer Erzählkunst, ihre tiefe Menschenkenntnis, sondern auch eine jugendliche Kühnheit, der man nur mit Staunen und Bewunderung begegnen kann. Hoch auf den Dächern der Stadt, dem Himmel am nächsten, liegt das Paradies. Seine Bewohner nähren sich von Gemüse, Früchten und Honig und kultivieren ihren Garten Eden, den sie dem Waste Land einer Stadt jenseits der drohenden Klimakatastrophe abgetrotzt haben…