Margaret
Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a co-founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada and the celebrated author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays including Oryx and Crake; the 2000 Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin; Alias Grace, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Robber Bride; Cat’s Eye; The Handmaid’s Tale; and The Testaments, which co-won the 2019 Booker Prize. Atwood lives in Toronto.
Program History
2007 Lecturer
Margaret Laurence Lecture Series- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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