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Margaret Atwood has said that her late partner, the writer Graeme Gibson, would have been “very tickled” that a Canadian literary prize is being renamed after the couple, to honour their “unwavering commitment to supporting Canadian culture”.
Gibson, who died in 2019, and Atwood were two of the five co-founders of the Writers’ Trust of Canada in 1976. On Wednesday, the organisation said that because of their “tireless efforts to build structural supports for the then-nascent Canadian literary community”, it is now renaming its fiction award, won in the past by authors including Alice Munro, as the Atwood Gibson prize.
Writers Trust of Canada renaming fiction prize after Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson
The Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize will award $60,000 to the year s best work of fiction.
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The Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize will award $60,000 to the year s best work of fiction
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson stop on the red carpet at the Scotiabank Giller Bank Prize gala in 2018.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
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