This conversation will never happen again. Margaret Atwood and Elif Shafak have never sat across from each other, live on stage and discussed their collective body of exceptional work.
Neither author requires an introduction, but for the record: Margaret Atwood is the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, Alias Grace, and dozens more works that have defined and defied the boundaries of literature for over half a century.
Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, and The Island of Missing Trees. She is a fearless writer and public thinker who has even faced trial in Turkey for the words of her fictional characters.
This will be an unscripted exchange between two of the most vital literary voices of our time. Together, they have written across continents, invented new forms of fiction, and spoken boldly on the world’s most urgent issues: authoritarianism, gender, freedom, silence, climate, and the power of the story.
One night. Two legends. No repeats.
Event Schedule:
5:00pm: Doors Open
5:30pm: Fantastic Women & Fantastic Stories - A panel with some of the finest authors in Britain today discussing the phenomenal worlds they have created and the female characters that glue us to the page. Panellists TBA.
6:30pm: Break
7:00pm: Margaret Atwood & Elif Shafak: Words Like Fire
8:30pm: Book signing for those with tickets.
