When Reality Trumps Fiction: Margaret Atwood's Ominous Echoes Margaret Atwood has spent four decades issuing warnings about the erosion of democracy, women's rights, and free expression in her fiction.
Her predictions have finally caught up with reality, as she pointed out in a recent interview at Porto's Babell literary festival.
Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, has long been a global symbol of resistance against oppressive regimes.