margaret atwood

Spain has named writer Margaret Atwood winner of one of the country's most distinguished arts prizes, sometimes likened to the European country's version of the Nobel Prize. The Canadian literary icon was named winner Wednesday of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters.

It doesn’t have a title yet, and it’s not due to be released until the fall, but Margaret Atwood has handed in her first full length manuscript in five years to publisher McClelland & Stewart. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.

While on the surface Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” paints the picture of a time and place not far from our own where the utopic ideals of one group of people appear to be a dystopic hell for another, beneath these circumstances it is, among other things, a story about freedom and choice; the freedom to make your own choices, and the freedom from making your own choices.