Margaret Atwood, world-renowned novelist and author of The Handmaid's Tale-now an acclaimed Hulu series-will present a public reading, Q&A, and book signing at 7 p.m. on March 8 in Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium as part of Gemini Ink’s Autograph Series. The free reading is made possible by Gemini Ink in partnership with Trinity University Press.
In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood is the author of over forty novels, books of poetry, and critical works, including The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, winner of the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Robber Bride; Cat’s Eye; The Penelopiad; Hag-Seed, a revisioning of Shakespeare’s The Tempest; and, most recently The Heart Goes Last. She has been nominated six times for the Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
Atwood is the rare literary writer whose work becomes a part of popular culture. The Handmaid’s Tale has been translated into forty languages, made into a film, and adapted into an opera and a ballet; it is being turned into a graphic novel. This year it became a hit MGB/Hulu television series. The novel Alias Grace has been made into a six-episode television series that will air on Netflix in November 2017.