Margaret Atwood to open Muskoka’s literary festival

LITERARY GIANT.. Famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood will open the North Words Muskoka Literary Festival on Sept. 30 at the Algonquin Theatre in Huntsville.

HUNTSVILLE — This year’s North Words Muskoka Literary Festival will showcase Canada’s queen of literature, Margaret Atwood. Atwood is the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction.
She is most well known for her multi-award winning novels which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid’s Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (which won the Booker Prize in 2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Tent (2006), Moral Disorder (2006) and The Year of the Flood (2009).
Her non-fiction book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008) was published as part of the Massey Lecture series, and also received much critical acclaim.
In her new work In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Atwood recounts her lifelong relationship with science fiction, a genre she has visited many times in her work. In Other Worlds is due out in the fall.
Atwood will open the festival on Friday, Sept. 30 at Huntsville’s Algonquin Theatre where she will talk about her life as a writer and the future of Canadian literature.
Joining Atwood will be Terry Fallis, author of the political satire Best Laid Plans and the followup The High Road. Best Laid Plans won CBC Radio’s Canada Reads competition in 2011 for the best Canadian novel of the last decade. It also won the Stephen Leacock medal for humour.
The High Road has been nominated for the same award this year. Not bad for an author who was overlooked by every agent and publisher in the country.
Fallis will appear at a brunch to be held at Mill on Main café in Huntsville on Sunday, Oct. 1 at 9:30 a.m. to talk about his unconventional rise to fame.
Other authors attending the festival include Camilla Gibb, Richard B. Wright, Claudia Dey, Gill Deacon, Cathy Buchanan, Ed Lawrence, Tish Cohen and Cynthia Lord.
Tickets to all events are now on sale at the Algonquin Theatre. For more information please go to www.northwords.org.

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