Freedom: Vintage Minis

About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye The Robber Bride Alias Grace The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic The Handmaid's Tale was followed in 2019 by a sequel The Testaments which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly her first collection of poetry for a decade and in 2022 Burning Questions a collection of essays was a Sunday Times bestseller. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society the Franz Kafka Prize the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist illustrator librettist playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto Canada.