The Canadian author Margaret Atwood (1939) is one of the world’s leading writers and thinkers. Her intriguing, often unsettling novels (including The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin), essays and poems articulate her long-standing philosophical and political concerns regarding power, culture and identity. Her new novel MaddAddam is the final part of the MaddAddam trilogy (including Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood), and is a story about the remnants of humanity after a pandemic. Told with her usual wit, dizzying imagination and dark humour, this new book takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a mirror to our own possible future. Her exceptional visit to Brussels is not to be missed.

Margaret Atwood : Will there be literature in the future? Yes, as long as there are people. No, if not.

Flagey, Passa Porta, Uitgeverij Prometheus
With the support of the Flemish Minister of Brussels.