Prince of Asturias literary prize

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has won Spain's 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. Click here for information on The Prince of Asturias Foundation.

The Foundation website says of Margaret Atwood: "The leading figure in Canadian literature and one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary fiction, Margaret Atwood offers in her novels a politically committed, critical view of the world and contemporary society, while revealing extraordinary sensitivity in her copious poetical oeuvre, a genre which she cultivates with great skill."

Margaret Atwood works available in the library:
Alias Grace
The Blind Assassin
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
Cat's Eye
The Door
Good Bones and Simple Murders
The Handmaid's Tale
Lady Oracle
Moral Disorder: Stories
Oryx and Crake
The Penelopiad
The Robber Bride
Surfacing