Academics, Authors & Intellectuals

His "wide cultural perspective and poetic overtones fashioning the drama of existence" earned him the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Themes including free choice, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, suffering, and the function of storytelling in human evolution are all explored in his published work.

Two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards are just a few of the many accolades Atwood has received for her writing.