“New Classics” Recognition for The Handmaid’s Tale

Entertainment Weekly ranks The Handmaid’s Tale #1 on  their list of the best book covers of the past 25 years (the novel itself is ranked sixteenth on the “New Classics” book list).

Margaret Atwood Wins Asturias Prize

Margaret Atwood was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters in Spain. Click here for more information on this prestigious award, including a statement by Ms. Atwood.

Margaret Atwood Symposium Held in Tokyo

Ichi-Ban Dai-Kyoshitsu, University of Tokyo, Hongo: A Symposium on Margaret Atwood will be held at the University of Tokyo on June 6, 2008. It is being organized in co-operation with the Canadian Embassy (as part of their E. H. Norman Speaker Series) and has the support of departments in the University of Tokyo. The event is expected to be endorsed by the Canadian Literature Society of Japan. The feature speaker is Margaret Atwood’s Japanese translator, Ayako Sato of Meiji Gakuin University, who has just published a translation of Alias Grace. The other speakers are Dr. Tristanne Connolly (who teaches at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo; runs the Canada Council reading series there; and is a poetry editor for The New Quarterly) and Steve Clark (University of Tokyo), a British scholar who has published, reviewed and taught extensively on travel writing and postcolonial literature.  For further information, contact atwood.symposium@hotmail.com.

Welcome

The Margaret Atwood Society is an international association of scholars, teachers, and students who share an interest in Atwood’s work.  The main goal of the Society is to promote scholarly exchange of the writer’s work by providing opportunities for scholars to exchange information.  To let us know about current Atwood-scholarship-related news or events, please email us the appropriate information.  If you’d like to join the society, please see the About page for a membership form and additional information.

Special Note:  We often receive queries about how to contact Ms. Atwood.  We are unable to forward your message to her—we do not correspond with her directly.  See her official website on the links page, where she provides an address for queries.