Atwood holds numerous honorary degrees from various institutions, including The Sorbonne, NUI Galway as well as Oxford and Cambridge universities.[150]
- Awards
- Governor General's Award, 1966, 1985[151]
- Companion of the Order of Canada, 1981[152]
- Guggenheim fellowship, 1981[153]
- Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, 1986[154]
- American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year, 1987[155]
- Nebula Award, 1986 and Prometheus Award, 1987 nominations, both science fiction awards.[156][157]
- Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, 1987[158]
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988[159]
- Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1989
- Outstanding Canadian Award – Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, 1989[160]
- Order of Ontario, 1990[161]
- Trillium Book Award, 1991, 1993, 1995[162]
- Government of France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1994[163]
- Helmerich Award, 1999, by the Tulsa Library Trust.[164]
- Booker Prize, 2000, 2019[165][60]
- Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, 2007[166]
- Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 2008[167]
- Fellow Royal Society of Literature, 2010
- Nelly Sachs Prize, Germany, 2010[168]
- Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010[169]
- Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada, 2012[170]
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Innovator's Award", 2012[171]
- Gold medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2015[172]
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2016[173]
- Franz Kafka Prize, Czech Republic, 2017[174]
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Germany, 2017[175]
- Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, 2019[176]
- Goodreads Choice Awards, 2019[177]
- The Center for Fiction, 2019[178]
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2020[179]
- British Academy President's Medal, 2020[180]
- Emerson-Thoreau Medal (2020)
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[181]
- Hitchens Prize (2022)[182]
- Honorary degrees
- Trent University, 1973[183]
- Queen's University, 1974[184]
- Concordia University, 1979[185]
- Smith College, 1982[186]
- University of Toronto, 1983[187]
- University of Waterloo, 1985[188]
- University of Guelph, 1985[189]
- Mount Holyoke College, 1985[190]
- Victoria College, 1987[191]
- Université de Montréal, 1991[192]
- University of Leeds, 1994[163]
- McMaster University, 1996[193]
- Lakehead University, 1998[194]
- University of Oxford, 1998[195]
- Algoma University, 2001[196]
- University of Cambridge, 2001[42]
- Dartmouth College, 2004[197]
- Harvard University, 2004[198]
- Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005[199]
- National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011[200]
- Ryerson University, 2012[201]
- Royal Military College of Canada (LLD), November 16, 2012[202]
- University of Athens, 2013[203]
- University of Edinburgh, 2014[204]
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2017
- University of St Andrews, 2023[205]
