Margaret Atwood
Awards Summary
Career and Special Awards: 1
Major Awards: 1
Other Awards: 3
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 23
— Career and Special Awards —
Science Fiction Hall of Fame — selected by Science Fiction Museum and advisors
2017:
creator — winner
— Major Awards —
Nebula Awards — for SF/F works, voted by SF & Fantasy Writers of America professional membership
(1 nomination)
1987:
The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin)
— novel — nomination
Arthur C. Clarke Award — for SF novel published in the UK; juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
1987:
The Handmaid's Tale (Cape)
— winner
Dragon Awards — for SF/F works, voted on by members of the annual Dragon Con
(1 nomination)
2020:
The Testaments (Nan A. Talese)
— sf novel — nomination
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award — (renamed the Otherwise Award in 2020)
(3 nominations)
1997:
Alias Grace (Doubleday)
— long list
1996:
The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin)
— retrospective Tiptree short list
1994:
The Robber Bride (Bantam)
— short list
John W. Campbell Memorial Award — for SF novel published in US or UK; juried
(1 nomination)
2010:
The Year of the Flood (Talese)
— finalist
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(4 nominations)
2020:
The Testaments (Nan A. Talese; Chatto & Windus)
— sf novel — 8th place
2014:
MaddAddam (McClelland & Stewart; Bloomsbury; Talese)
— sf novel — 4th place
2012:
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Talese: Virago: Signal (Canada))
— non-fiction — 4th place
1987:
The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin; McClelland & Stewart 1985)
— sf novel — 4th place
— Other Awards —
Aurora Awards — for Canadian SF/F in English and in French, voted by members of annual convention
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2020:
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel (by MA & Renee Nault) (McClelland & Stewart)
— graphic novel — nomination
2017:
Angel Catbird Volume One (by MA, Johnnie Christmas & Tamra Bonvillian) (Dark Horse)
— graphic novel — winner
1986:
The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland & Stewart)
— long-form, English — nomination
Kurd Lasswitz Preis — for SF works published in Germany, juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2020:
The Testaments
— foreign novel — winner
Mythopoeic Awards — for fantasy works in the spirit of the Inklings, voted by members of the Mythopoeic Society
(1 nomination)
2006:
The Penelopiad (Canongate)
— adult literature — nomination
Prometheus Awards — for SF works on libertarian themes, voted by members of the Libertarian Futurist Society
(2 nominations)
2020:
The Testaments (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese)
— novel — nomination
1987:
The Handmaid's Tale (Fawcett)
— novel — nomination
Rhysling Awards — for SF/F poetry, voted by members of the SF Poetry Association
(1 nomination)
2008:
“Ice Palace” (The Door McClelland & Stewart, 2007)
— short poem — 2nd place
Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll — for SF/F works, polled by readers of Science Fiction Chronicle magazine
(1 nomination)
1987:
The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin)
— novel — 3rd place
Sunburst Award — for novel or book-length collection by a Canadian, juried
(1 nomination)
2004:
Oryx and Crake (McClelland & Stewart)
— nomination
The Kitschies — for speculative/fantastic works that elevate the tone of genre literature, juried
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2016:
The Heart Goes Last (Bloomsbury)
— Red Tentacle (novel) — winner
Copyright 2012 - 2025 by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. All rights reserved.