Atwood: Trumps USA är som Europa på 30-talet
USA under Donald Trump är skrämmande likt 1930-talets fascistiska och kommunistiska styren i Europa. Det säger den kanadensiska författaren Margaret Atwood på bokmässan i Frankfurt, enligt AFP.
– Det som förvånar många i Europa är att detta sker i USA, som länge sågs som en fyrbåk för demokratin, säger Atwood.
Atwoods roman ”The handmaid’s tale”, som också blivit tv-serie, handlar om en fundamentalistisk diktatur där de kvinnor som kan få barn är statliga ägodelar.
– Folk känner plötsligt att det kan bli verklighet för dem, säger Atwood.
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Margaret Atwood
Wikipedia (en)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology. She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies.
While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.
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