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Novelist, poet and critic
Canada · b. 1939
Canadian novelist and poet whose books include Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin. She has won the Booker Prize twice, in 2000 and 2019, and has published more than a dozen poetry collections.
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Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
Recorded The Guardian Review, 20 February 2010 source
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