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Literary icon Margaret Atwood on why The Handmaid’s Tale no longer feels like fiction

Podcast: arts24
Published: Jul 7, 2026
Duration seconds: 741
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Summary

Two-time Booker prize-winning author, Margaret Atwood has spent four decades warning what happens when democracy, women’s rights and free expression begin to erode. Today, many readers believe the world has caught up with her fiction. In this interview with FRANCE 24’s Eve Jackson, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale reflects on US President Donald Trump, the expanding book bans in the United States, the rollback of reproductive rights, censorship and why she torched an “unburnable” edition of her most famous novel.