Wollongong plays host to Booker prize-winning author

7 March 2001

Recent Booker Prize winner and Canada’s best-known poet and novelist, Margaret Atwood, will visit Wollongong on Friday 9 March.

The novelist will deliver the second annual Nortel Networks Canadian Studies Address on behalf of the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies.

Ms Atwood will be reading from and discussing her Booker prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin.

She will be introduced by the organiser of the event, Centre Director Associate Professor Gerry Turcotte, and by the Canadian Consul-General, Mr John Mundy.

Globally acclaimed, Ms Atwood's work has been published in more than 35 countries and translated into 20 languages. Some of her other best-known works include Alias Grace, The Edible Woman and The Handmaid’s Tale which was made into an acclaimed motion picture.

Ms Atwood is the recipient of a multitude of literacy awards in Canada and internationally.

Following her address, Ms Atwood will be available for book signing. The event is sold out.
Venue: Wollongong City Gallery
Time: 12.30 to 2pm, Friday 9 March.

Enquiries: Kristi Kenyon, Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies, phone 4221 3737.