Margaret Atwood to be celebrated on stamp by Canada Post

One of Canada’s most prolific and decorated writers, Atwood’s bibliography spans far more than 50 publications of poetry, fiction, criticism, essays and graphic novels.

Atwood has been publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction considering the fact that the 1960s. Her acclaimed books include The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake and The Edible Lady. Her early poetry collection The Circle Sport won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry.

She also gained the Booker Prize twice, in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and in 2019 for The Testaments. She shared the 2019 prize with British writer Bernardine Evaristo. She also gained the Giller Prize in 1996 for Alias Grace.

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She is most effective regarded for her dystopian depictions of societies wracked by patriarchal oppression and environmental wreck, as exemplified by the 1985 traditional novel The Handmaid’s Tale.

Earlier this 12 months, the Writers’ Trust of Canada announced their fiction prize would be renamed right after Atwood and her extended-time lover Graeme Gibson. Atwood and Gibson were between the co-founders of the Writers’ Believe in.

Atwood was named a companion to the Get of Canada in 1981. She also co-founded the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Atwood is expected to attend Thursday’s event together with filmmaker Sarah Polley, who adapted Atwood’s 1996 novel Alias Grace into a Tv miniseries, and Canadian activist and extended time friend Ceta Ramkhalawansingh.

Some others renowned Canadians who have not long ago been additional to Canada Post’s stamp collection contain Indigenous singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie and late acting legend Christopher Plummer.