Author Margaret Atwood has reportedly delivered a manuscript for her first full-length, original novel in five years.

The Canadian writer, who has won the Governor General's award twice as well as a Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin (2000), handed in her manuscript to McClelland & Stewart earlier this year, according to the Globe and Mail.

Margaret Atwood, seen here in 2006, handed in a new manuscript earlier this year to publishers McClelland & Stewart. It is yet untitled.
(Aaron Harris/Canadian Press)

The report says the work does not have a title yet and will be published in the fall.

Atwood's previous novel, 2003's post-apocalyptic Oryx and Crake, was a worldwide bestseller and landed on the Booker Prize shortlist.

The 68-year-old Ottawa-born author has been a prolific poet, literary critic and novel writer. She has a dozen poetry collections under her belt as well as six children's books.

Her previous works include The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace and The Penelopiad, her 2005 re-telling of an ancient Homeric myth that was turned into a critically acclaimed play.

Atwood's other works have also been adapted to the stage and screen, including The Handmaid's Tale, made into a movie and an opera, and The Edible Woman, converted to the stage by playwright Dave Carley.

Ever the activist, Atwood once served as vice-chair of the Writer's Union of Canada and president of PEN International, a group committed to promoting freedom of expression and the release of imprisoned writers.

In between her engagements and writing, she has developed what has been touted as the world's first long-distance signing device, the LongPen.