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Margaret Atwood's fireproof The Handmaid's Tale to be auctioned
Protesting against book banning and censorship in the US, Atwood and her publisher are auctioning off an unburnable copy of her bestselling dystopian novel.
Published on Jun 07, 2022 07:10 PM IST
Avni Doshi, Hilary Mantel in Booker Prize longlist
Selected from 162 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020, the prize is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Updated on Jul 28, 2020 10:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
Rowling, Rushdie, Atwood sign letter warning liberals of illiberalism
The letter criticised the state of public debate and the “swift and severe retribution” dealt out to any perceived wrongs. It decried an “intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism.’’
Published on Jul 08, 2020 11:37 PM IST
London | Associated Press
Spectator by Seema Goswami: Comfort reading
Trust me, it’s the best way of keeping calm and carrying on in the midst of a lockdown
Updated on May 03, 2020 02:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
Novelist Margaret Atwood on how she escaped the coronavirus scare
Recently, for the Read A Letter initiative, she shared the story of how she managed to escape the coronavirus scare.
Updated on Apr 20, 2020 02:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Covid-19: What to read during, after a pandemic
Given how popular the movie Contagion has become over the past few months, and the huge renewal of interest in the genre after the emergence of Covid-19, this Sunday column is dedicated to the huge volume of end-of-the-world fiction that’s out there.
Updated on Apr 19, 2020 06:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | R Sukumar
Deepika Padukone to receive Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum, for spreading mental health awareness
Deepika Padukone and three others have been selected for Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Updated on Dec 13, 2019 07:33 PM IST
Press Trust of India | HT Correspondent
Star Trek writer DC Fontana no more: Five women authors of sci-fi you must read
Move over Isaac Asimov and HG Wells — it’s time you picked up the layered feminist science fiction of Joanna Russ, or the socially conscious speculative works of Octavia E Butler and PD James, the dystopia imagined by Margaret Atwood and Mary Shelley’s enduring Promethean tale Frankenstein.
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 10:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Prannay
Rules from 1993 waived as Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo win 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
Atwood, who last won the prize in 2000 for ‘The Blind Assassin’, won the 2019 prize for her ‘The Testaments’, while Evaristo, the first black woman to win the prize, was awarded for ‘Girl, Woman, Other’. They will share the £50,000 prize money.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 03:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
Margaret Atwood is one of this year’s Booker Prize winner. Here are her top 5 books you must read
Canadian author Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo were awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction 2019 last night in London. Read on for Atwood’s five most-loved novels you must read.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 02:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
It’s a tie: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize for Fiction
Margaret Atwood, 79, is the oldest-ever Booker winner. Bernardine Evaristo, who is of Anglo-Nigerian heritage, is the first black woman to take the trophy. She has published seven previous books.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:32 AM IST
London | Associated Press
Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie vie for Britain’s 50th Booker Prize
Past laureates have ranged from celebrated writers such as Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes to Kazuo Ishiguro and Roddy Doyle.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 01:56 PM IST
Agence France-Presse | Agence France-Presse, London
Margaret Atwood, Lucy Ellmann favorites to win fiction’s Booker Prize
Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is the bookies’ favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy again for “The Testaments,” her follow-up to dystopian saga “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 01:54 PM IST
London | Associated Press
Margaret Atwood’s longtime partner, author Graeme Gibson, dead at 85
Gibson’s death was announced Wednesday by Doubleday, which has published both Gibson and Atwood. He had been suffering from dementia.
Updated on Sep 19, 2019 06:58 PM IST
New York | Associated Press
Margaret Atwood said global politics led to the sequel of Handmaid’s Tale
Atwood said she had not planned a sequel to the story, but real-life political events, including moves to limit women’s reproductive rights, led her to reconsider.
Updated on Sep 10, 2019 05:34 PM IST
LONDON | Reuters
Copies of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale sequel, The Testaments, released early by mistake
Retailers were instructed to keep The Testaments strictly under wraps until its official release on September 10, but several online customers have already received the much-anticipated novel.
Updated on Sep 06, 2019 11:41 AM IST
New York | Agence France-Presse
Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie shortlisted for Booker Prize
Canadian author Atwood has been nominated to the six-person list for The Testaments, her hotly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale due out later this month. Rushdie, who is nominated for Quichotte, won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book Midnight’s Children.
Updated on Sep 05, 2019 05:40 PM IST
London | Agence France-Presse
Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in The Testaments
She has written more than 40 books — novels, story collections, essays and poems — and her awards include the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin and Canada’s Giller Prize for Alias Grace.
Updated on Sep 05, 2019 03:50 PM IST
TORONTO | Associated Press
Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood make it to the Booker Prize shortlist
Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 and both Atwood and Obioma had earlier made it to the 1986 and 2015 short-lists respectively.
Published on Sep 03, 2019 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
From Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments to Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte, here are most popular fiction titles this fall
From Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, to Lucy Ellmann’s epic Ducks, Newburyport and Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte, novelists and short story writers are addressing the news of the moment through imagined narratives.
Updated on Aug 29, 2019 01:16 PM IST
New York | Associated Press
The gems of the Booker trove: 2019 longlist
This year’s Booker Prize longlist includes two former winners as well as an international array of acclaimed fiction.
Updated on Aug 09, 2019 12:01 PM IST
THE GUARDIAN
Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood in longlist for Booker Prize 2019
Rushdie, a former Booker winner, is on the longlist for ‘Quichotte’, a novel to be published in September; Atwood’s ‘The Testament’ is also due to be released in September.
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 04:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
Bollywood Bookshelf: The book-loving funnybone
Voracious reader Twinkle Khanna on being the ‘non Kindle’ girl and the one thing she has in common with Bridget Jones!
Updated on Dec 31, 2018 06:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Zuni Chopra
A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians score SAG nominations. See full list
Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born, Marvel’s Black Panther and Spike Lee’s BlackKklansman led the SAG awards nominations, announced on Wednesday.
Updated on Dec 13, 2018 01:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent, Los Angeles
Margaret Atwood to release Handmaid’s Tale sequel
The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments will pursue unresolved narratives in the original 1985 novel, delving into the inner workings of the fictional nation of Gilead. The book will release in September 2019.
Updated on Nov 29, 2018 11:17 AM IST
Agence France-Presse | Agence France-Presse
Cli-fi: Climate change, global warming and the birth of a new genre
Global warming and climate change are topics being widely spoken about today and with its effects clearly evident on the planet. But did you know that authors in the past have written fictionalised accounts of the effects of climate change on humans which has become a whole new genre since the turn of the millenium? Read on to know more about Cli-Fi.
Updated on Nov 26, 2018 05:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
#MeToo personal for ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ costume designer
In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’, Margaret Atwood’s nightmare of an America transformed into a totalitarian society, where women are reduced to sexual slavery, quickly became a parable to many about the political shift to the right and the national reckoning about sexual abuse.
Updated on Oct 18, 2018 06:22 PM IST
Agence France-Presse | Agence France-Presse, New York
Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Glam as glam can be
If you want a definition for jet-set, here it is: no sooner had she touched down in India early this week was international fashionista and philanthropist Natasha Poonawalla already on her speed dial, making calls to invite friends for what is said to be the mother of all parties at her Mumbai mansion in SoBo, for newlyweds Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja this weekend.
Updated on May 30, 2018 12:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Malavika Sangghvi, Mumbai
The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood says 9/11 terrorists got the idea from Star Wars
In a magazine interview, Margaret Atwood said she believes the terrorists behind the 9/11 attack got the idea from Star Wars, and that while Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential race was “pretty bad for the environment”, it was not the end of the world.
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 10:59 AM IST
Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
Hay Festival 2018: Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor in line up
One of the most anticipated annual literature events, the festival programme announced on Monday features 600 of the world’s most known writers, policy makers, and innovators in 800 events over 11 days from May 24 to June 3
Updated on Mar 27, 2018 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, London | Prasun Sonwalkar
