Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh to Share Dan David Prize
March 24, 2010
CBC.ca reports that author Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh have both been awarded the Dan David Prize. They will share the $1 million U.S. cash prize awarded by the Dan David Foundation out of Tel Aviv University.
The judges said Atwood's work "enabled, for the first time, the emergence of a defined Canadian identity, while exploring both national and transnational issues, such as colonization, feminism, structures of political power and oppression, and the violation and exploitation of nature.
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Ghosh was praised for his fiction, which judges said "is distinguished equally by its precise, beautifully rendered depictions of characters and settings, and by its sweeping sense of history unfolding over generations against the backdrop of the violent dislocations of peoples and regimes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
You can see what the Dan David Foundation had to say about Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood here and read what they said about Indian-Bengali novelist Amitav Ghosh here.
CBC.ca 
