Margaret Atwood rejects festival over gay book controversy
February 19th, 2009
Celebrated author Margaret Atwood has announced that she is will not attend the International Festival of Literature in Dubai following the festival director’s decision to ban a book with a gay character.
Atwood, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, told organisers that could not attend due to “the regrettable turn of events” concerning the banned book.
In a letter to organisers, Atwood wrote “I was greatly looking forward to the Festival, and to the chance to meet readers there; but, as an International Vice President of PEN — an organisation concerned with the censorship of writers — I cannot be part of the Festival this year.”
[via Pink News]
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