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The Testaments

- The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale

af Margaret Atwood
The Testaments af Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781784742324
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 432
  • Udgivet:
  • 10. september 2019
  • Størrelse:
  • 168x243x37 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 668 g.
  • 4-7 hverdage.
  • 4. december 2024
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Margaret Atwood er en af Canadas største forfattere, og hendes værker er udgivet i over 45 lande på verdensplan. Atwood er født i Ottawa i 1939 og opvokset i Quebec, Ontario og Toronto, hvor hun har studeret både filosofi og litteratur. Hun har forsket og undervist i litteratur og engelsk på flere universiteter både i Canada og USA. Hendes utrolige viden om og talent inden for litteratur og filosofi afspejler sig også i hendes forfatterskab, som hun har vundet utallige priser for; blandt andet The Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award og hædersprisen Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Bedst kendt er hendes roman Tjenderindens Fortælling, som også er et af hovedværkerne i Margaret Atwoods forfatterskab. Den moderne klassisker udkom første gang i 1985, og i 2017 adapterede Bruce Miller historien til den storslåede og prisvindende tv-serie “The Handmaid’s Tale”. Efterfølgende har Atwoods bøger opnået en renæssance..

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

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