Conversation with Margaret Atwood


Friday, May 18, 2012, 7 p.m., Kinoteka, following the screening of the film “Payback"

Languages of the meeting: English

You are invited to a discussion with Margaret Atwood, moderated by the journalist Anna Theiss and the editor of Zwierciadlo.pl portal Katarzyna Kazimierowska.

Margaret (Eleanor “Peggy”) Atwood – world-renowned Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, social and environmental activist, recipient of the 2000 Booker Award and the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award, considered to be one of the main contenders for the literary Nobel Prize. Atwood’s collection of essays “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth” served as inspiration for Jennifer Baichwal’s film “Payback” screened during the festival, with Atwood beeing also one of its protagonists.