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Alumna Margaret Atwood shares Booker Prize for her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
Published: October 15, 2019
Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood, a UU直播 alumna, has won the 2019 Booker Prize for her dystopian thriller The Testaments, her follow-up to The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale.
Atwood, 79, shared the prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo, who was honoured for her book of Black women鈥檚 stories Girl, Woman, Other.
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 The Blind Assassin.
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