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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Atwood

Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse – as it happened

Fosse honoured by Nobel committee ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’

The Guardian - UK

Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize in literature

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

The Guardian - UK

Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon

Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones

The Guardian - UK

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Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

Works by thousands of authors also including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami and Jonathan Franzan fed into models run by firms including Meta and Bloomberg

The Guardian - UK

Iowa school district banned books based on ChatGPT’s advice

The banned books include ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘Beloved’ by Toni Morrison

The Independent UK

US school board uses AI to ban books, including Margaret Atwood’s

ChatGPT is being used to help identify books to ban in school libraries over in the US

Evening Standard

Authors are resisting AI with petitions and lawsuits. But they have an advantage: we read to form relationships with writers

The first waves of AI-generated text have writers and publishers reeling.

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9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots

More than 9,000 authors are calling out the tech companies behind generative AI in an open letter that states there is an inherent injustice in exploiting copyright-protected works to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.

Los Angeles Times

Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent

Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given when a writer’s work is used by AI

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of writers demand AI stop using work without permission

Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen and James Patterson among signatories of Authors Guild-organised letter.

Al Jazeera

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging AI companies to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies

The Independent UK

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood are among those signing an Authors Guild letter asking artificial intelligence companies to get permission or offer compensation.

WEKU

‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots

The Guardian - UK

Kala by Colin Walsh review – a sizzling debut of nostalgia and secrets

The disappearance of a teenage girl hangs over her former friends as they reunite in an Irish seaside village 15 years later

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The Independent UK

Michael Rosen ‘honoured’ by prize in memory of fellow injustice fighter Pinter

Past winners of the award have included Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sir Salman Rushdie.

The Hindu

Tracing the impact of sugar on health, culture and environment over the years

A list of books on why sugar is bad for your heath and how to reduce sugar

The Independent UK

Bryan Kohberger pictured at Margaret Atwood lecture on ‘misogyny’ years before the Idaho murders

At the 2018 lecture, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale spoke of her prominent writing career exploring issues of misogyny, patriarchy and feminism

The Walrus

Is CanCon Obsolete?

When it comes to what qualifies as “Canadian,” nobody seems happy. It’s time to rethink the nationalistic vanity project

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Evening Standard

Margaret Atwood and Rob Delaney at Hay Festival: ‘I don’t want to live forever’

The pair discuss grief, the process of writing, and what awaits after death

The Guardian - UK

Trump election reframed TV version of The Handmaid’s Tale, says Atwood

Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election

The Guardian - UK

Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – reflections on a world in crisis

Atwood ranges across topics from the global heating to The Handmaid’s Tale, with actors Ciarán Hinds and Ann Dowd among the narrators

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel’s last novel was to have been an Austen mash-up: read an exclusive extract starring Mr Darcy

In the week of the Wolf Hall author’s memorial, her husband and agent talk about the Jane Austen satire she was working on when she died in 2022. Plus: read an exclusive extract, along with her earliest published work

The Guardian - US

Book bans in US public schools increase by 28% in six months, Pen report finds

Writers organisation denounces ‘relentless’ Republican crusade as 1,477 books banned in first half of 2022-23 school year

Evening Standard

Spring reads 2023: the best new books from Margaret Atwood, Emma Cline and more

The season has changed and a whole new crop of essential books are being unleashed

The Independent UK

Book signing event goes viral after author posts room full of empty chairs: ‘Crying the entire way home’

Thousands empathised with the bestselling writer and shared similar experiences of disappointment

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