Margaret Atwood
Canadian writer
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| 2024 | Margaret Atwood appeared in a cameo role on Murdoch Mysteries, playing Lorin Quinelle, an amateur ornithologist in a season 17 episode. |
| 2024 | Wrote on X (formerly Twitter) 'Despair is not an option. It helps no one.' in response to the United States presidential election, which also led to increased sales of her novel The Testaments. |
| 2024 | Margaret Atwood received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. |
| 2024 | Following the United States presidential election, sales of Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, saw a rapid increase, with The Handmaid's Tale reaching third on Amazon's bestseller's list. |
| 2024 | 'Cut and Thirst' is set to be published. |
| August 2 2024 | The Utah State School Board released its first list of objectionable books, which included Margaret Atwood's novel 'Oryx and Crake', following a law passed by the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature mandating the removal of such books from public schools. |
| 2023 | Atwood published 'Old Babes in the Wood.' |
| 2022 | Receives the Hitchens Prize. |
| 2022 | Atwood was honored with the Hitchens Prize. |
| February 24 2022 | Atwood briefly covered the war in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and published a link to the state aid fund on Twitter, continuing to share information about the conflict. |
| 2021 | Syngrafii Inc. became cloud-based and began offering electronic signature technology, with Atwood still serving as a director and holding various patents related to the LongPen. |
| 2020 | Atwood received the British Book Awards. |
| 2020 | Atwood was awarded the Emerson-Thoreau Medal. |
| November 2020 | Margaret Atwood published 'Dearly', a collection of poems that delve into themes of absences, endings, aging, and renewal. |
| November 2020 | The central poem from 'Dearly', titled 'Dearly', was published in The Guardian, along with an accompanying essay by Atwood on the concepts of time, grief, and the relationship between a poem and its reader. |
| July 2020 | Atwood was one of 153 signers of the 'Harper's Letter,' which expressed concern about the constriction of free exchange of information and ideas in society. |
| 2019 | Wins her second Booker Prize and becomes a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. |
| 2019 | Atwood collaborated with Equality Now for the release of her novel 'The Testaments'. |
| 2019 | Margaret Atwood was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. |
| 2019 | A graphic novel based on The Handmaid's Tale, illustrated by Renée Nault, was published. |
| 2019 | The Testaments was published and won the Booker Prize, sharing the honor. |
| September 18 2019 | Graeme Gibson, Atwood's partner, passed away after suffering from dementia. |
| 2018 | Margaret Atwood signed an appeal of the American PEN Center in defense of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who was a political prisoner in Russia. |
| 2018 | Paramount Television and Anonymous Content announced they had bought the rights to the MaddAddam trilogy after HBO dropped the project. |
| 2018 | Atwood was honored at the Make Equality Reality Gala by women's rights organization Equality Now, where she acknowledged her role as a writer discussing topics of social justice. |
| November 28 2018 | Atwood announced that she would publish The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, in September 2019. |
| May 2 2018 | Hulu announced the renewal of The Handmaid's Tale for a third season. |
| April 25 2018 | The second season of the television adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale premiered. |
| January 2018 | Atwood published the op-ed 'Am I a Bad Feminist?' for The Globe and Mail, addressing criticism related to her support of due process in the Steven Galloway case. |
| 2017 | Wins the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. |
| 2017 | Atwood won the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic. |
| 2017 | The children's book Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery was adapted into an animated television series titled The Wide World of Wandering Wenda, which began airing on CBC in the spring. |
| 2017 | Atwood was the recipient of the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| 2017 | Atwood expressed her discomfort with the label 'feminism' in an interview, emphasizing the need to clarify what people mean by that term. |
| September 25 2017 | The miniseries adaptation of Atwood's novel Alias Grace, directed by Mary Harron and adapted by Sarah Polley, premiered on CBC. |
| 2016 | Experienced an increase in sales of The Handmaid's Tale following the United States presidential election. |
| 2016 | Atwood was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| 2016 | Atwood published the novel Hag-Seed, a modern retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest. |
| 2016 | 'Hag-Seed' was released and was longlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction. |
| 2016 | Margaret Atwood began writing the superhero comic book series Angel Catbird, collaborating with co-creator and illustrator Johnnie Christmas. The series features a protagonist, scientist Strig Feleedus, who undergoes an accidental mutation granting him the abilities of both a cat and a bird. |
| 2016 | Atwood signed a petition for an independent investigation into the firing of Steven Galloway, a former University of British Columbia professor, which sparked backlash on social media. |
| October 2016 | It was revealed that HBO had dropped its plans for an adaptation of Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which was initially slated to be directed by Darren Aronofsky. |
| 2015 | 'The Heart Goes Last' was published, winning the 2015 Red Tentacle award. |
| 2015 | Atwood was honored with the Gold medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. |
| May 27 2015 | Margaret Atwood completed her novel Scribbler Moon, becoming the first contributor to the Future Library project. The book was ceremonially handed over to the project on this date and will be held until its publication in 2114. |
| 2014 | Wrote 'Scribbler Moon' as part of the Future Library project, to remain unpublished until 2114. |
| May 23 2014 | The chamber opera 'Pauline', with libretto by Margaret Atwood and composed by Tobin Stokes, premiered on May 23, 2014, at Vancouver's York Theatre. |
| 2013 | Atwood published 'MaddAddam,' the third novel in the 'Oryx and Crake' trilogy. |
| 2013 | Unotchit Inc. was renamed Syngrafii Inc., continuing to develop technologies related to remote writing. |
| 2012 | Margaret Atwood received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in Canada. |
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