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As\u00a0Hulu\u2019s\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u00a0builds towards its series finale,\u00a0Margaret Atwood, who wrote the 1985 novel on which the popular TV drama starring\u00a0Elisabeth Moss\u00a0is based, will be honored by\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0at its Women in Entertainment Canada event on May 29 in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian author, poet and activist will receive the ICON Award at this year\u2019s second annual WIE Canada gala ceremony. Atwood wrote the Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> book on which the Hulu TV series, from creator Bruce Miller, is based. Her follow-up 2019 novel, The Testaments<\/em>, is currently being adapted as a sequel series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u00a0explores the complicated lives of handmaids who are sex slaves forced to give birth for infertile elite couples. Cultural and political observers have noted that the themes and concepts of\u00a0the Canadian-born author\u2019s celebrated novel\u00a0are\u00a0eerily familiar in today\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>climate that sees the Donald Trump administration making repeated strikes against the rights of women, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and other marginalized communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WIE Canada\u2019s ICON Award was created to recognize Canadian cultural icons who have advanced greater representation of women in the media and entertainment industry and whose artistic vision has reached global audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having written around 50 books of fiction, poetry, critical essays and graphic novels, Atwood will publish her memoir,\u00a0Book of Lives<\/em>, later this year. She has also received awards like the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka\u00a0International\u00a0Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Los Angeles Times Innovator\u2019s Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIE Canada earlier announced that Tantoo Cardinal will receive the Equity in Entertainment Award, lifestyle journalist Jeanne Beker will be given the IMPACT Award; and The Sex Lives of College Girls <\/em>star Amrit Kaur will receive the Breakthrough Award at this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upcoming second annual WIE Canada summit will again bring together the Canadian industry across TV, film and music to celebrate and recognize the achievements of women driving the industry forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event\u2019s return follows a successful\u00a0first-ever WIE Canada summit\u00a0on May 30, 2024 that was attended by iconic Canadian entertainers in the TV, film and music fields like Lilly Singh, Nia Vardalos, Devery Jacobs, Kim Cattrall, Catherine Reitman and Jully Black. (THR)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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