The author of Negotiating with the Dead been waitlisted for the Booker Prize five times.
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing is a non-fiction work by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. 
 She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. 
