Margaret Atwood - Awards & Nominations

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

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Shorty Award for Author	MargaretAtwood

2010

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature	The Penelopiad

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker International Prize

2003

Nominations 2003 »

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

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award	The Blind Assassin

2000

Man Booker Prize

Honored for : The Blind Assassin

Nominations 2000 »

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

1999

Helmerich Award

1998

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award	Alias Grace

1996

Nominations 1996 »

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

1994

Nominations 1994 »

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

1991

Nominations 1991 »

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

1989

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize	Cat's Eye

1988

Nominations 1988 »

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

1987

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Honored for : The Handmaid's Tale

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
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

Nominations 1985 »

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

1981

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada	(Fiction)

1979

Nominations 1979 »

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

1966

Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama	Honored for : The Circle Game

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