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Winnipeg Free Press
07-05-2025
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Griffin Poetry Prize to bestow lifetime recognition award on Margaret Atwood
TORONTO – Renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood is getting this year's Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Prize. The literary award is handed out periodically to international artists working in poetry, and more often than not has gone to a non-Canadian writer. This year it puts a spotlight on the Toronto author as the race for the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize includes no Canadian finalists for the first time in the award's 25-year history. Margaret Atwood pauses for a photo after the red carpet for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Toronto, on Monday, November 13, CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Shortlisted collections are written by U.S., European and Cuban poets and translators, who stand to get $10,000 as runners-up: Aaron Coleman, Durs Grünbein, Brian Henry, Karen Leeder, Carl Phillips and Diane Seuss. The Griffin originally offered separate prizes for Canadian and international contenders but in 2023 merged them into a single prize open to all poets. The winner will be announced June 4 at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings in Toronto. A Canadian is guaranteed to win another award – the Canadian First Book Prize – set to be announced May 21. Winnipeg Free Press | Newsletter Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Sign up for The Warm-Up Atwood earns the career honour after releasing 'Paper Boat' In October 2024, a collection of new and selected poems from 1961 to 2023. Before that, she published 'Dearly' in 2020, her first collection of poetry in a decade. Atwood is arguably best known for acclaimed novels including 'Cat's Eye,' 'The Robber Bride,' 'Alias Grace,' and the 1985 classic, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' 'The Testaments,' her 2019 bestselling sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale,' won the Booker Prize. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 7, 2025.
CBC
07-05-2025
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Margaret Atwood awarded $25K Griffin Poetry Prize lifetime achievement award
Social Sharing Acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood has been named the recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize's 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award. The Ottawa-born Atwood has published over 50 books — poetry, fiction, essays — and is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She began her writing career with poetry, publishing The Circle Game and winning the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in the late 1960s. She's since published more than a dozen poetry collections, including The Journals of Susanna Moodie in 1970, Power Politics in 1971 and, most recently, Paper Boat in 2024. Atwood has won several awards for her work including the Governor General's Literary Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Writer in the World Prize, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the German Peace Prize. Her other notable books include the novels The Edible Woman, Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye, the essay collection Burning Questions and the nonfiction work Survival. Her debut memoir, Book of Lives, is set to be published on November 4, 2025. The Griffin Trust's Lifetime Recognition Award is presented to a poet from anywhere in the world in celebration of their body of work. Past recipients include South Korea's Ko Un, Northern Ireland's Seamus Heaney and American Fanny Howe. Atwood will be honoured with the award on June 4 at a gala event in Toronto, where she will also present a reading and be interviewed onstage by American poet, teacher and activist Carolyn Forché. The evening will also feature the announcement of the Griffin Poetry Prize winner and the recipient of the Canadian First Book Prize. Founded in 2000 by Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Scott Griffin, the Griffin Poetry Prize is the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry written in, or translated into English. The winner will receive $130,000.
