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BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now.
We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as
Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to
The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include
Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize;
Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy;
The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize;
Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize;
The Year of the Flood,
MaddAddam; and
Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.