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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lydia Spencer-Elliott

Margaret Atwood hits out at Alberta books ban with satirical short story

Margaret Atwood has taken aim at a book ban applied in the Canadian province of Alberta that has seen her most popular novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, removed from some shelves.

Copies of Atwood’s feminist dystopia have been pulled from certain school libraries in the district following the education ministry’s order to remove “materials containing explicit sexual content”.

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