Margaret Atwood, author portrait
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Margaret Atwood

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, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.

Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to litera­ture. She lives in Toronto.
The Testaments (TV Tie-in)
Old Babes in the Wood
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
Hag-Seed
The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)
MaddAddam
In Other Worlds
The Year of the Flood
Oryx and Crake
Negotiating with the Dead
The Blind Assassin: Booker Prize Winner
Alias Grace

The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

Books

The Testaments (TV Tie-in)
Old Babes in the Wood
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
Hag-Seed
The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)
MaddAddam
In Other Worlds
The Year of the Flood
Oryx and Crake
Negotiating with the Dead
The Blind Assassin: Booker Prize Winner
Alias Grace

Media

The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE

The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and showrunner Bruce Miller (full panel) | BookCon 2017

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