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King Felipe VI Presents Margaret Atwood Joan Margarit Poetry Prize

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The head of state is using his visit to Canada to personally present the author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ with an honour, 18 years after granting her the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.

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Every poem is an act of hope on the part of the poet and was proclaimed by Margaret Atwood, much more than the author of The Handmaiden's Tale. The 86-year-old Canadian writer received the poetry award Joan Margarit on Wednesday at an event held at Victoria College at the University of Toronto, on whose campus she saw a king and a poet walk. Continue reading...

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Toronto (Canada), 20 May (EFE).- The King of Spain, Philip VI, expressed this Wednesday to Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, at Victoria University in Toronto, his gratitude for teaching society to read better: «to read our time, to read our societies and to read to ourselves». After 18 years, when he gave Atwood in Oviedo (Spain) the Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters, the King of Spain met again in Toronto this Wednesday with the Canadian wri…

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On Wednesday, King Philip VI presented the 3rd Joan Margarit International Poetry Award to Canadian writer Margaret Atwood at the University of Victoria in Toronto, Canada. The monarch expressed his gratitude to Atwood for teaching society to read better. “Read our time, read our societies and read to ourselves,” the monarch said. Continue reading

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Almost simultaneously, two good news shook the world of Margaret Atwood. Disney+ announced the renewal of "The Wills: Of the Daughters of Gilead" for a second season and, in Toronto, 86-year-old Canadian writer received the 3rd International Poetry Award Joan Margarit at a ceremony held at Victoria University, with the presence of King Philip VI of Spain, on an official three-day visit to the country. THE ISSUE THAT NOT FOR Disney+ announced the…

Philip VI has formally presented, almost two decades after the state recognition of the great lady of the Canadian lyrics through the Princess of Asturias Award of Letters, the Joan Margarit Prize, created by the Cervantes Institute last September. ANNOUNCEMENT Mónica and Pol Lezcano Margarit, daughter and grandson of the Catalan poet and professor of architecture deceased in 2021 had the task of giving a reading of poems written by both Margare…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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