Author

Margaret Atwood

Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist; two-time Booker Prize winner and author of The Handmaid's Tale

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Speculative fiction, feminist literatureKnown for

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. ‘Her sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019. It was an instant international bestseller and won the Booker Prize.’

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Born1939 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Notable works The Handmaid's TaleThe TestamentsAlias GraceOryx and CrakeThe Blind Assassin

HonoursBooker Prize 2000 (The Blind Assassin) · Booker Prize 2019 (The Testaments) · PEN Pinter Prize 2016

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