Now, its time for welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There are writers of world renown whose reputation rests on one great book. There are others who write more prolifically, but always in the same territory. And then theres my guest today. Margaret atwoods Output Fizzes with energy, diversity and experimentation. Shes best known for her novels, the handmaids tale, the blind assassin, oryx and crake. But shes written poetry, blog fiction and, this year, a Superhero Comic Book, too. She has a worldwide legion of fans. So what keeps her creative juices flowing . Margaret atwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Ijust referred to your prolific and diverse output over many years. But youve just done something youve never done before. Youve taken on adapting shakespeare. And youve always said shakespeare is pretty much your favourite author. So how daunting was that . Very, very daunting. First of all you knew that you were going to get a lot of people saying that you shouldnt do it, an
Now, its time for welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There are writers of world renown whose reputation rests on one great book. There are others who write more prolifically, but always in the same territory. And then theres my guest today. Margaret atwoods Output Fizzes with energy, diversity and experimentation. Shes best known for her novels, the handmaids tale, the blind assassin, oryx and crake. But shes written poetry, blog fiction and, this year, a Superhero Comic Book, too. She has a worldwide legion of fans. So what keeps her creative juices flowing . Margaret atwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Ijust referred to your prolific and diverse output over many years. But youve just done something youve never done before. Youve taken on adapting shakespeare. And youve always said shakespeare is pretty much your favourite author. So how daunting was that . Very, very daunting. First of all you knew that you were going to get a lot of people saying that you shouldnt do it, an
Now, its time for welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There are writers of world renown whose reputation rests on one great book. There are others who write more prolifically, but always in the same territory. And then theres my guest today. Margaret atwoods Output Fizzes with energy, diversity and experimentation. Shes best known for her novels, the handmaids tale, the blind assassin, oryx and crake. But shes written poetry, blog fiction and, this year, a Superhero Comic Book, too. She has a worldwide legion of fans. So what keeps her creative juices flowing . Margaret atwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Ijust referred to your prolific and diverse output over many years. But youve just done something youve never done before. Youve taken on adapting shakespeare. And youve always said shakespeare is pretty much your favourite author. So how daunting was that . Very, very daunting. First of all you knew that you were going to get a lot of people saying that you shouldnt do it, an
I think i just got an f from you actually. applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i think it goes in odd places that make it a very compelling read. It goes in very odd places. Very odd places. My read on this was it was 1984 crossed with the truman show with a little of masters of sex in there. laughter others may have their own equation. What was the genesis of this book and of this story . Once upon a time. Yes. Long long ago. [evan] were gonna go all the way back good okay yes. Once upon a time i worked with an editor call
applause Margaret Atwood welcome. Thank you. Very nice to have you here. Lovely to be here. So interested in this new book, congratulations on it. May i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. laughs is that a compliment . Oh my god its the biggest compliment in the world. I mean the world that youve created in this book will come back to the handmaids tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. But i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i think it goes in odd places that make it a very compelling read. It goes in very odd places. Very odd places. My read on this was it was 1984 crossed with the truman show with a little of masters of sex in there. laughter others may have their own equation. What was the genesis of this book and of this story . Once upon a time. Yes. Long long ago. [evan] were gonna go all the way back good okay yes. Once upon a time i worked with an editor called amy grace lloyd from the magazine world.