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Article: Canada's Margaret Atwood wins Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize for literature
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- June 26, 2008
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Canada's Margaret Atwood wins Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize
for literature
MADRID, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has
won the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, the jury said
Wednesday in Oviedo, northern Spain.
"We decided to bestow the award on Margaret Atwood for her
outstanding literary work that has explored different genres with
acuteness and irony, and because she cleverly assumes the classic
tradition, defends women's dignity and denounces social unfairness,"
the jury said.
The poet, novelist and literary critic was born in 1939 in