A week of activities at IU Bloomington devoted to the work of Margaret Atwood will be capped by a visit with the author on February 3. The Lilly Library hosts an exhibition of her work and its influences “The Speculative … Continue reading
Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award on June 3 at the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Libris Awards. She explained in her acceptance speech why she thinks paper books will continue to flourish. The full text … Continue reading
Tom Shippey’s latest article for the Wall Street Journal discusses Margaret Atwood’s book In Other Worlds and takes on the perennial question “What is sci-fi”? Most people here would follow a distinction made by Ms. Le Guin. Things we think are impossible, magic … Continue reading
The judges of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction overturned the rules and awarded the prize jointly to two authors: Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. The Booker Prize has been jointly awarded twice … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood was presented with the Franz Kafka Prize at a ceremony in the Old Town Hall of Prague, Czech Republic, on October 17. Atwood received a small statue of Kafka by Czech artist Jaroslav Rona and a cash prize … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, one of Germany’s most prestigious cultural prizes, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Margaret Atwood’s full acceptance speech is here. Every country, like every person, has a noble … Continue reading
Margaret Atwood discussed science fiction with On Point host Tom Ashbrook yesterday, October 12, in a broadcast now available online. Poet and novelist Margaret Atwood has written some of the most hair-raising, dystopian tales of our time. Of apocalypse, wild … Continue reading
(1) SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS HOF CLASS OF 2024. Muddy Colors announces the Greg Manchess and Yuko Shimizu are among the “2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame” inductees. See examples of all the artists’ work at the link. The Society of … Continue reading
All are welcome to nominate work for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, an annual $25,000 cash prize. The Prize is given to a writer whose book reflects the concepts and ideas that are central to Ursula’s own work, … Continue reading
(1) SFWA NEBULA FINALIST ANNOUNCMENT TOMORROW. The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) will announce the 2023 Nebula Award finalists (to be presented this year in Pasadena) on the SFWA Youtube channel, tomorrow, March 14, starting at 5:00 p.m. Pacific. Once … Continue reading