Margaret Atwood is a giant of modern literature who has anticipated, explored and satirized the popular preoccupations of our time. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, Atwood is the rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics, and studied on university campuses around the world.

The Sunday Times of London dubbed her "one of the most inventive, enthralling and accomplished authors writing in English."

Though her subject matter varies, the precision crafting of her language gives her work a sensibility entirely its own. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, fiction and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin.

Her latest novel is the futuristic The Year of the Flood, a follow-up of sorts to her bestseller, Oryx and Crake. Publishers Weekly called it "profoundly imagined...a gutsy and expansive novel, rich with ideas and conceits," while Kirkus Reviews found it to be "another stimulating dystopia from this always-provocative author, whose complex, deeply involving characters inhabit a bizarre yet frighteningly believable future."

Atwood's books have been translated into more than 30 languages and she has received many international awards, including the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada; the Booker Prize and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the United Kingdom; the Dashiell Hammett Award in the United States, and the Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre de Arts et Les Lettres in France.

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