At a press conference in a Toronto library, the subversive and corrosive novelist reacted with humor to what she called an "unexpected honor", welcoming family and friends, as well as "those who are going to laugh at me. because I am on a stamp ".
The new Canada Post stamp features a portrait of Margaret Atwood with her eyes closed and one hand against her cheek, with the words "A word after a word after a word is power". power), a line from his poem "Spelling".
The one who is sometimes nicknamed the queen of Canadian literature took advantage of the ceremony to defend causes important to her, notably urging Canadian and American politicians to act on the climate front and to put an end to discrimination based on sex and skin color.
Rewarded by the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Killer", translated into 50 languages, she is the author of forty novels, collections of poetry and critical essays in which she dissects the place of women in society.
Several of her works are adapted for film and television, most notably the critically acclaimed television series "The Handmaid Scarlet", which won several Emmy Awards equivalent to the Oscars of American television.
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