Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon

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Twice winner of the Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood is best known as the visionary behind The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopia which like all the great has entered a wider social discourse. Johny Pitts talks to the giant of contemporary literature about returning to short fiction following the death of her husband Graeme, attempting to imagine the future and what she would say to George Orwell. Plus,100 years after the birth of Trinidadian author Sam Selvon's birth, what is the enduring legacy of the Trinidadian author behind The Lonely Londoners? Answering this question is the TS Eliot Prize winning poet, musician and Lecturer at Kings College London, Anthony Joseph along with Founding Editor of Wasafiri magazine, Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University London and Selvon's literary executer, Susheila Nasta. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham Book List Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon A Brighter Sun by Sam Selvon Ways of Sunlight by Sam Selvon Turn Again Tiger by Sam Selvon The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon An Island is a World by Sam Selvon I Hear Thunder by Sam Selvon Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph