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A Conversation with Margaret Atwood

2022-06-15 19:00:00 2022-06-15 20:00:00 America/New_York A Conversation with Margaret Atwood Palace Theatre -

Wednesday, June 15
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-06-15 19:00:00 2022-06-15 20:00:00 America/New_York A Conversation with Margaret Atwood Libraries to host a conversation with author Margaret Atwood on June 15 Palace Theatre -

Libraries to host a conversation with author Margaret Atwood on June 15

The Plain City Public Library, in partnership with other central Ohio libraries (Bexley Public Library, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Grandview Heights Public Library, London Public Library, Southwest Public Libraries, Upper Arlington Public Library, Westerville Public Library, and Worthington Libraries), will present acclaimed author Margaret Atwood at 7 pm on Wednesday, June 15 at the Palace Theatre. The event will feature a conversation between the author and Ann Fisher, host of WOSU’s All Sides.                                                   

ABOUT THE EVENT

Tickets go on sale exclusively through cbusarts.com on Sunday, May 1, 2022. Ticket prices begin at $25 (plus fees).
All ticket sales are handled through cbusarts.com: online, by phone at 614-469-0939, and in-person at the Box Office at 39 E. State St. Columbus, Ohio 43215. Libraries are not point-of-sale locations.
WOSU Public Media’s Ann Fisher (All Sides with Ann Fisher) will lead a conversation with the author. Books will be available for purchase through Gramercy Books. Some COVID-19 restrictions may apply.

ABOUT MARGARET ATWOOD

Margaret Atwood has long been a literary titan. With her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale adapted into an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning television series, and its sequel, The Testaments, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, Atwood’s sharp eye is more crucial—and prescient—than ever.

Atwood’s novel and sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, performed so well, it broke the record for best first-day sales of any Penguin Random House title in 2019.

Her latest release, Burning Questions, is a collection of more than 50 essays that aim her prodigious intellect and impish humor at our world.  The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.

Atwood is the winner of many international literary awards, including the prestigious Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General’s Award, the PEN Pinter Prize, the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In October 2019, she was presented with the Companion of Honor award—given for achievements in the arts, literature, science and politics—by Queen Elizabeth, making Atwood only the third Canadian to receive the honor.

She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction; perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood. Her non-fiction book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, part of the Massey Lecture series, was made into a documentary.  The Oryx and Crake trilogy is being adapted into an HBO TV series by celebrated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. Her work has been published in more than 40 languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. She co-invented the LongPen, a remote signing device that allows someone to write in ink anywhere in the world via tablet PC and the internet. She is a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada and a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also a popular personality on Twitter, with over a million followers.

ABOUT THIS CENTRAL OHIO LIBRARY COLLABORATION

This library collaboration allows libraries to host large, impactful events in Central Ohio collectively by sharing costs, resources, and expertise.
In addition to resource sharing and encouraging partnership on various community-wide initiatives, these collective events enhance and further engage a community of readers and raise the visibility of libraries throughout Central Ohio.
This collaboration hosted travel author and TV host Rick Steves at the Southern Theatre in December 2019; the event sold out within hours of going on sale. In 2020, the collaboration hosted a community read of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You followed by an online discussion with author Jason Reynolds.

Photograph by George Whiteside

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | World & Culture | For Booklovers | Entertainment |

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Venue details


34 W Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215