MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include The Testaments, which was the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto.

FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD
A Globe and Mail Best Book

“Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her playful, allegorical best.” —The Globe and Mail

“If one measure of art’s power is its ability to force you to face what you would very much rather not, Oryx and Crake—the evocative tale of a nightmarish near-future—is an extraordinary work of art, one that reaffirms Atwood’s place at the apex of Canadian literature.” —Maclean’s

“Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. . . . Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying.” —The Baltimore Sun

“Atwood’s great talent for narrative has never been displayed to better effect.” —Toronto Star

“Oryx and Crake is Atwood at her best—dark, dry, scabrously witty, yet moving and studded with flashes of pure poetry. Her gloriously inventive brave new world is all the more chilling because of the mirror it holds up to our own. Citizens, be warned.” —The Independent

“Wonderfully vivid, and the sardonic unveiling of future history makes for a strong narrative drive.” —National Post

“Perfectly constructed, funny, and satiric. It is inventive yet prophetic, in fact, apocalyptic and weirdly feasible. . . . It is brilliant.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“Contemporary novelists rarely write about science or technology. Margaret Atwood tackles both—and more.” —The Economist