OTTAWA – Canada’s postal service on Thursday celebrated the 60-year writing profession of “The Handmaid’s Story” creator Margaret Atwood by that includes her picture on a stamp.
At a ceremony at a Toronto library, Ottawa-born Atwood reacted with humor to the “sudden honor,” welcoming family and friends, and “those that intend to make enjoyable of me for being on a stamp.”
“On a stamp, actually, the nerve,” she quipped dryly. “How ever will I stay it down… How cringe. How eye-rolling.”
“Be ready for a bunch of jokes about licking and sticking, to not point out cancelation and particularly to not point out philately,” she mentioned, recalling her childhood assortment of stamps ripped off envelopes pulled from trash bins.
The brand new stamp includes a image of Atwood — eyes closed and one hand on her cheek — with the strains “A phrase after a phrase after a phrase is energy,” from her poem “Spelling.”
Atwood additionally used the revealing to advocate for causes, recounting a good friend’s vow to slap the stamps together with her likeness on letters to lawmakers in Canada and the US, calling for motion on local weather change and an finish to gender discrimination.
The award-winning author has 50 works to her credit score, together with novels, quick fiction and poetry, and has offered thousands and thousands of books translated into greater than 30 languages.
“The Handmaid’s Story” — a few totalitarian regime that forces fertile ladies to breed for barren elite {couples} — was printed in 1985 however stays related, and within the public consciousness due to Hulu’s Emmy-winning tv adaptation. — Agence France-Presse
