‘Hope is a built-in characteristic’: Margaret Atwood on birds, conservation and optimism for the future

Canadian novelist has celebrated her late partner’s love of birds with a C$1m gift to a university to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology If she could be any bird, Margaret Atwood would transform into a raven. “They’re very smart…
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