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30 March 2022

Margaret Atwood’s self-fulfilling prophecies

For a literary oracle, the novelist is not too interested in what lies ahead.

By Megan Gibson

A lot of people want to know what Margaret Atwood thinks. Now 82, the Canadian novelist, poet and prolific essayist, who has more than 50 books to her name, has for some time, as she herself observes, been treated as an “icon”, having made the leap from literary star to a highly sought-after and versatile cultural commentator.

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