Fiction prize renamed in honour of Margaret Atwood and late partner Graeme Gibson

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has relaunched its annual fiction award as the Atwood Gibson prize, which Atwood says would have left him ‘very tickled’

Margaret Atwood has said that her late partner, the writer Graeme Gibson, would have been “very tickled” that a Canadian literary prize is being renamed after the couple, to honour their “unwavering commitment to supporting Canadian culture”.

Gibson, who died in 2019, and Atwood were two of the five co-founders of the Writers’ Trust of Canada in 1976. On Wednesday, the organisation said that because of their “tireless efforts to build structural supports for the then-nascent Canadian literary community”, it is now renaming its fiction award, won in the past by authors including Alice Munro, as the Atwood Gibson prize.

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