Overview
- Organizers announced her selection on September 24, following jury deliberations held in June for the prize’s third edition.
- The award is promoted by Editorial La Cama Sol, the Instituto Cervantes and the family of the late Catalan poet Joan Margarit.
- The decision was unanimous from a panel that included Javier Santiso, Luis García Montero, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Ana Santos and Mónica Margarit.
- Jurors praised Atwood’s lifelong poetic work for addressing feminism, ecology, love, disenchantment and the search for identity with command of language.
- A year-end ceremony is planned, and La Cama Sol will publish a limited-edition volume of her acceptance speech with Spanish and English texts, selected poems and artwork; previous laureates include Sharon Olds and Adonis.