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

Source: The Guardian · Published 25 Sept 2026, 13:00

<p>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</p><p>If she could be any bird, Margaret…

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