![]() ![]() ![]() The author's grief permeates the pages of Old Babes in the Wood, her ninth short story collection, which was released this month.Ītwood, whose career spans seven decades, is best known for The Handmaid's Tale, adapted for television in 2017, and her award-winning novels The Blind Assassin and The Testaments. "We did know that Graeme was going to die fairly soon, so we did a number of things in the last year or so that he really wanted to do, and that was one of them," Atwood told ABC RN's The Book Show earlier this month. ![]() His death was not unexpected – but it was a devastating loss for Atwood, a two-time Booker Prize winner and the author of more than 50 books.Įven as Gibson's health deteriorated in early 2019, the couple embarked on a voyage by sea aboard the MS Queen Victoria to Australia - the birthplace of Gibson's mother. Gibson was diagnosed with the condition in 2012. In 2019, famed Canadian author Margaret Atwood lost her partner of 48 years, fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, to dementia. ![]()
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