/ en /celebrates/alumna-margaret-atwood-shares-booker-prize-her-sequel-handmaid-s-tale <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Alumna Margaret Atwood shares Booker Prize for her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>s.anderson</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-10-15T11:15:38-04:00" title="Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 11:15" class="datetime">Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:15</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/victoria-college" hreflang="en">Victoria College</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/literature" hreflang="en">Literature</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/GettyImages-1052167166.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Portrait-style photo of Margaret Atwood"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic via Getty Images)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Acclaimed&nbsp;author <strong>Margaret Atwood</strong>, a University of Toronto alumna, has won the 2019 Booker Prize&nbsp;for her dystopian thriller&nbsp;<em>The Testaments</em>, her follow-up to&nbsp;<em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>.</p> <p>Atwood, 79, shared the prize with&nbsp;British author Bernardine Evaristo, who was honoured for her book of Black women’s stories&nbsp;<em>Girl, Woman, Other.</em></p> <p>A graduate of Victoria College, Atwood said she planned to donate her share of the prize money to a scholarship for Indigenous students in environmental studies, the CBC reported. She previously won the Booker Prize in 2000 for&nbsp;<em>The Blind Assassin.</em></p> <h3><a href="/news/margaret-atwood-u-t-alumna-shares-booker-prize-sequel-handmaid-s-tale">Read the <em>U of T News</em> story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:15:38 +0000 s.anderson 159901 at