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Margaret Atwood: books and prizes

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist and essayist born in Ottawa. Her first poetry collection, Double Persephone, appeared in 1961 and her novel The Handmaid's Tale in 1985. She won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin in 2000 and for The Testaments in 2019.^1,2,3

Works, in order of first publication

1. 1961Double Persephone²poetry
2. 1964The Circle Game²poetry
3. 1969The Edible Woman²novel
4. 1972Surfacing²novel
5. 1972Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature²non-fiction
6. 1979Life Before Man²novel
7. 1981Bodily Harm²novel
8. 1985The Handmaid's Tale^2,1,3novel
9. 1993The Robber Bride²novel
10. 1996Alias Grace^2,1novel
11. 2000The Blind Assassin^2,1novel
12. 2002Negotiating with the Dead²essays
13. 2003Oryx and Crake^2,1novel
14. 2009The Year of the Flood²novel
15. 2013MaddAddam²novel
16. 2016Hag-Seed²novel
17. 2019The Testaments^1,3novel

Prizes

1. 2000Booker Prize^1,2For The Blind Assassin
2. 2016PEN Pinter Prize¹For Body of work
3. 2019Booker Prize³For The Testaments

Sources

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Margaret Atwood, Encyclopaedia Britannica (last updated 2026-10-04)
2. Poetry Foundation, Margaret Atwood, Poetry Foundation (accessed 2026-10-28)
3. The Booker Prizes, Margaret Atwood, The Booker Prizes author page (accessed 2026-10-28)