{"id":17499,"date":"2014-03-17T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:53:09","slug":"booker-prize-winning-novelist-margaret-atwood-to-read-at-apsu-on-april-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/03\/17\/booker-prize-winning-novelist-margaret-atwood-to-read-at-apsu-on-april-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Prize-winning novelist Margaret Atwood to read at APSU on April 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – There are books that people simply enjoy, and then there are books that cause a deep, visceral reaction in readers. Canadian author Margaret Atwood\u2019s 1985 dystopian novel, \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d belongs in the latter category.<\/p>\n

The novel, about the repression of women in a future society, connected so strongly with its audience that, almost 30 years later, it remains an international bestseller and a major influence on people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

\"Margaret<\/a>

Margaret Atwood<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cPeople \u2013 not only women \u2013 have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from \u2018The Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2019 tattooed on them,\u201d Atwood wrote in a 2012 editorial in The Guardian newspaper.<\/p>\n

The now classic novel, which has been adapted into a movie, an opera and a ballet, solidified Atwood\u2019s reputation as a leading literary figure of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, but she has continued to expand that reputation with novels such as \u201cThe Blind Assassin\u201d and \u201cOryx and Crake.\u201d Her latest book, the 2013 novel \u201cMaddAddam,\u201d was recently nominated for the Bailey\u2019s Women\u2019s Prize for Fiction.<\/p>\n

At 8:00pm on April 11th, Atwood will visit the Austin Peay State University Mabry Concert Hall for a special reading and book signing, sponsored by the APSU President\u2019s Office and the APSU Department of Languages and Literature. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Atwood is the author of more than 40 volumes of poetry, children\u2019s literature, fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been published in more than 40 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction and the Canadian Booksellers\u2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

Every fall, Atwood also is listed among the top contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n

For more information on her reading, contact Susan Wallace at wallacess@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – There are books that people simply enjoy, and then there are books that cause a deep, visceral reaction in readers. Canadian author Margaret Atwood\u2019s 1985 dystopian novel, \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d belongs in the latter category. The novel, about the repression of women in a future society, connected so strongly with its audience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,2021,16648,22293,22294,262,9247,512,825,22292,1363],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-apsu","tag-apsu-department-of-languages-and-literature","tag-apsu-george-and-sharon-mabry-concert-hall","tag-apsu-presidents-office","tag-arthur-c-clarke-award","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-book-reading","tag-clarksville","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-susan-wallace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17500,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions\/17500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}