TORONTO, ON—Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood has, at long last, realized her dream of being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, entering the class of 2016 alongside Pearl Jam, the Electric Light Orchestra, and Guatemalan magical realist novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias.

"It was a natural choice," announced the Hall's founder Jann Wenner in a press conference in Cleveland, Ohio. "Atwood is a towering figure. She burst onto the scene so memorably with 1969's The Edible Woman, which you'll recall came out the same year as Abbey Road and Let It Bleed, and stood confidently alongside those major works. And I truly believe that her 1996 comeback Alias Grace was to music what Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind was to the novel."

Atwood will join contemporaries like the Steve Miller Band, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Green Day (whose Dookie won the 1994 Giller), and is rumoured to be performing one of her rare outtakes live for the first time at the induction ceremony. The choice has been controversial, but supporters believe her time had truly come.

"Remember that a lot of people were outraged when Atwood went electric with her first e-book in 2012, and yet now we can't imagine a world without it," said Bun E. Carlos of fellow inductees Cheap Trick. "But that's what rock and roll does. It shocks and it teaches."

Atwood will not allow the honour to slow her down, and has already announced plans for a 2017 collaboration with classic rock legend Robert Plant and contemporary horror giant Dean Koontz.