Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale , her novels include Cat's Eye , shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace , which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin , winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake , shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.