‘In 30 years, there hasn’t previously been a time when I have felt unable to forecast a winner. This year any of the six could win’ – Martyn Goff
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. She won the Booker Prize in 2000 having previously been shortlisted three times, for Alias Grace in 1996, for Cat’s Eye in 1989 and for The Handmaid’s Tale in 1986. Her novel, Oryx and Crake, was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize.
Editions:
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, (London: Bloomsbury, 2000; London: Virago, 2001).
2000 Shortlist:
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
Brian O’Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGreevy
2000 Judges:
Simon Jenkins (chair), Prof. Roy Foster, Mariella Frostrup, Rose Tremain, Caroline Gascoigne
Topics:
• Genre Fiction and Mixed Genres.
• The Family and History.
• Literary Reputation.
Reviews:
Thomas Mallon, ‘Wheels Within Wheels’, New York Times Book Review, (3 September 2000), 7
Adam Mars-Jones, ‘Where Women Grow on Trees’, The Observer, (17 September 2000)
John Updike, ‘Love and Loss on Zycron’, New Yorker, (18 September 2000), 142-5 [partial link]
Lorna Sage, ‘Sisterly Sentiments’, Times Literary Supplement, (29 September 2000), 24
Alex Clark, ‘Vanishing Act’, The Guardian (30 September 2000)
Margaret Anne Doody, London Review of Books, XXII, xix (5 October 2000), 27 [partial link]
Karen Houppert, 'The Blind Assassin', Salon.com [Sept. 12, 2000]
An interview with Atwood from just after the publication of The Blind Assassin.
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