There’s a history of writers who double as goalkeepers, such as Camus, Pope John Paul II (all his book’s are shit), to name two. Perhaps it comes down to a writerly defensive agility: who knows. Strangely, we can think of no keepers who are also good writers - Campos, Pol Ó Muiri, not even Bonner. This week, we make an unlikely addition to our first list: one of the great dames of Canadian letters, Margaret Atwood.
Now, Atwood’s game may be ice hockey, but she is a Canuck and we all know that grass does not grow in Canada. The video below shows the author of Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin both in good humour and fine fettle between the sticks. Eat your heart out, Fuhr and Hasek. (h/t to Pol O Muiri's Ultach blog)
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