Awards & Winners

Margaret Atwood

Date of Birth 18-November-1939
Place of Birth Ottawa
(Ontario, Ottawa Valley, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Margarett Atwood, Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Atwood, Margaret
Profession Poet, Writer, Novelist, Author, Literary critic, Essayist, Activist
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. She is also a co-founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.

Awards by Margaret Atwood

Check all the awards nominated and won by Margaret Atwood.

2014


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Shorty Award for Author MargaretAtwood

2010


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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

2008


Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
(for her outstanding literary work that has explored different genres with acuteness and irony, and because she cleverly assumes the classic tradition, defends women´s dignity.)

2007


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Man Booker International Prize

2006


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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature The Penelopiad

2005


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Man Booker International Prize

2003


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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Oryx and Crake
Man Booker Prize Oryx and Crake

2002


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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Blind Assassin

2000


Man Booker Prize
Honored for : The Blind Assassin

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Man Booker Prize The Blind Assassin
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Blind Assassin

1998


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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Alias Grace

1996


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Man Booker Prize Alias Grace
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Alias Grace
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Alias Grace

1994


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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Robber Bride

1991


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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Wilderness Tips

1989


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Man Booker Prize Cat's Eye

1988


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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Cat's Eye

1987


Arthur C. Clarke Award
Honored for : The Handmaid's Tale

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Arthur C. Clarke Award The Handmaid's Tale
Prometheus Award for Best Novel The Handmaid's Tale
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series Screen Two
Heaven on Earth
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Handmaid's Tale

1986


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Man Booker Prize The Handmaid's Tale
Nebula Award for Best Novel The Handmaid's Tale

1985


Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
Honored for : The Handmaid's Tale

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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Handmaid's Tale

1979


Nominations 1979 »

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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Life Before Man