Margaret Atwood
She is one of the world's most gifted and eminent authors, on a special visit from Canada to receive the Scottish Arts Council's Muriel Spark International Fellowship. Always an entertaining speaker, here Margaret Atwood talks about her life as a writer in an event at the Queens Hall, Edinburgh as part of the Book Festival's special 2006 autumn programme.
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