At a ceremony at a Toronto library, Margaret Atwood reacted with humor to the 'unexpected honor.'
CANADA - Canada's postal service on Thursday celebrated the 60-year writing career of"The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood by featuring her image on a stamp.
"On a stamp, really, the nerve," she quipped dryly."However will I live it down... How cringe. How eye-rolling." The new stamp features a picture of Atwood -- eyes closed and one hand on her cheek -- with the lines"A word after a word after a word is power," from her poem"Spelling."
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