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Margaret Atwood on the effect of winning the Booker with The Blind Assassin.

28 May 2001

Margaret Atwood in Wire on the effect of winning the Booker with The Blind Assassin after being shortlisted three times.

'It made me a kinder, gentler Margaret Atwood. Now I am practically a blancmange. It was a great relief to my publishers. It removed a great deal of anxiety for them.... I don't have to worry about the state of my publisher's psyche anymore. The anxiety is wonderfully dispelled. I don't have to worry about them going off into corners and weeping.'