It stands for humanity, justice and tolerance: The exchange club honors Margaret Atwood. The canadian writer views “with a keen awareness and deeper knowledge of human nature” to the world.
Margaret Atwood
The Board based its vote, the canadian writer, essayist and poet show in her novels and non-fiction books “again and again, your political instincts and your clairaudience for dangerous undercurrent of developments and trends”. As one of the greatest story tellers of our time, Atwood place, “changing ways of Thinking and acting to the centre of their work” lote “in your utopian as dystopian works fearless”.
By observing human inconsistencies exactly, show the author, as is easily assumed normality could to the Inhuman tilt. The jurors attest to Atwood, their attitude was dictated by humanity, Justice and tolerance. She looks “with a keen awareness and deeper knowledge of human nature” to the world. Their analyses and Concerns, formulate them with words like a literary haunting.
Main Author Of Canada
The 77-Year-old is regarded as the most important and the most successful author in Canada. Her work includes novels, short story, Essays, poetry, plays, screenplays and children’s books and is translated into more than 30 languages. In 1985, Margaret Atwood, appeared to be most famous book “The Report of the maid”. In the utopian novel describes a dictatorship, in which women as reproductive machines to be used.
In their end-times trilogy of “Oryx and Crake” (2003), “the year of the flood” (2009) and “The story of Zeb” (2013) designs of the author, in view of the ecological problems of a post-apocalyptic world. With the global financial crisis, Atwood has, in her Essay, “Payback. Debt and the shadow side of wealth” (2008). In German, her novels have appeared most recently in this year, the “witch’s seeds” and “The heart comes last”. At the end of the year, a volume of essays comes out of “curiosity and passion”.
Together with Salman Rushdie, Atwood leads since may of this year, a campaign of the writers ‘ Association PEN International, which wants to give the persecuted and censorship threatened the authors more attention.
She studied from 1957 to 1962 in Toronto and Cambridge/Massachusetts English language and literature. From 1964, she worked as a literary scholar at various universities. She lives with her husband, the writer Graeme Gibson in Toronto.
The highly prestigious peace prize is awarded annually since 1950 by the börsenverein of the German book trade. Finally, the German journalist Carolin Emcke (2016), the writer Navid Kermani (2015), the American computer scientist Jaron Lanier (2014) and the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievitch (2013) price received peace.
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