Margaret Atwood at the Griffin Poetry Prize event on Wednesday. Atwood is one of the founding trustees of the prize, which was created in 2000 and awards $130,000 to international winners.
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In accepting her Lifetime Recognition Award at the Griffin Poetry Prize gala at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Wednesday night, Margaret Atwood read a pair of her poems while sitting in a chair.
There were slight issues. The 85-year-old poet-novelist said that due to cataracts she would need to hold the pages near her face. She also had to clutch a microphone, which was, she said, “just slightly awkward.”
