Margaret Atwood is this year’s winner of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, justice and understanding.
Officials with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize say the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale" and other classics is this year’s winner of the award named for the late U.S. diplomat who brokered the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. Atwood is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays and even comic books.
