About
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Recife. Her most well-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale, has seen renewed popularity and became a symbol of resistance. The sequel, The Testaments, published in 2019, also achieved international success and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has received many awards, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. Appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2019 for her contributions to literature, Atwood has also worked in various roles such as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright, and puppeteer. She resides in Toronto, Canada.
