Canadian creator Margaret Atwood has launched a brand new quick story that takes goal at a e book ban applied within the Canadian province of Alberta.
The satirical story’s launch comes after the esteemed creator’s most well-known novel, The Handmaid’s Story, was faraway from some e book cabinets due to the province’s new guidelines.
In July, Alberta’s schooling ministry ordered college libraries to take away “supplies containing express sexual content material” by 1 October.
Ms Atwood mentioned she wrote a brief story for 17-year olds about two “very, excellent youngsters” named John and Mary, since her award-winning e book was not appropriate for some Alberta faculties.
“They by no means picked their noses or had bowel actions or zits,” she mentioned at first of her story.
“They grew up and married one another, and produced 5 good youngsters with out ever having intercourse.”
She goes on to criticise Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who has been supportive of the e book ban, and compares her to characters in The Handmaid’s Story, a dystopian story that was changed into a star-studded TV hit.
Smith has been essential of among the books sure college districts have faraway from their cabinets corresponding to Ms Atwood’s, saying they don’t seem to be according to the sexually-explicit books the ban is attempting to focus on.
Guide bans first sprung up within the US in recent times and have since travelled north.
This isn’t the primary time Ms Atwood has been essential of the provincial e book ban. On Friday, she urged individuals to get copies of The Handmaid’s story earlier than “they’ve public e book burnings of it”.
“Do not learn it, your hair will catch on fireplace!,” she added in her social media submit.
Whereas Alberta faculties have till October to adjust to the order, some faculties have already launched their lists of banned books. The Edmonton Public Faculty Board introduced final week it was eradicating greater than 200 books from college libraries together with Ms Atwood’s basic.
Different classics on the listing embody George Orwell’s 1984, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Chook Sings and Aldous Huxley’s Courageous New World.
