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Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction

Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction

Update: 2021-06-03

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Experience award-winning Canadian writer Margaret Atwood in this humorous and vivid conversation about her works of elaborate ‘speculative fiction’, and how reality and science fiction are in fact inextricably intertwined.

Margaret Atwood was interviewed by Synne Rifbjerg at the Louisiana Literature festival at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2014.

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Margaret Atwood: On a Planet of Speculative Fiction

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