Margaret Atwood
1939 – present · b. Ottawa
Canada
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Biography
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
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- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021)No list
- VH1 Trailblazer Honors (2019)No list
- Companion of Honour (2019)No list
- Booker Prize (2019)No list
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2018)No list
- Lorne Pierce Medal (2018)No list
- Franz Kafka Prize (2017)No list
- Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel (2017)No list
Notable Works
- The Blind Assassin
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Cat's Eye
- Oryx and Crake
- Alias Grace
- The Year of the Flood
- Life Before Man
- Bodily Harm
- Dancing Girls & Other Stories
- Surfacing
Spouse
- Graeme Gibson
Education
- University of Toronto
- Harvard University
- Harvard University
- Leaside High School
- Radcliffe College — Master of Arts
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Stories by Canadian Women
1984
The Handmaiden's Tale
The Handmaiden's Tale
1985
The Secret Self -- Short Stories by Women
1985
The Treasury of English Short Stories
1985
The Handmaid's Tale
1986
The Art of the Tale
1987
The Oxford Book of War Poetry
1988
The Nightingale
1989
Margaret Atwood Conversations
1992
Discovering fiction
1993
Fiction
1993
Into The Garden
1993
Literature--Structure, Sound, and Sense--Sixth Edition
1993
Margaret Atwood Reads
Margaret Atwood Reads
1993
Women of the Century
1993
Antaeus/No. 73 and 74, Spring, 1994
1994
Adventures in English Literature -- Athena Edition
1996
Alias Grace
1997
Literature of Britain with World Classics
1997
When We Were Young
1997
The tragedy of King Lear with related readings
1998
Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound, and Sense--Seventh Edition
1999
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature -- Sixth Edition
1999
Glencoe literature--the reader's choice--course 2
2000
Mothers and Daughters in the Twentieth Century
2000
The Blind Assassin
2000
The compact Bedford introduction to literature--Fourth edition
2000
Margaret Atwood Presents
2004
Oryx and Crake
2004
Rape fantasy
Rape fantasy
2005
The Great Lakes
2005
Essentials of British and World Literature
2006
Selected Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen
2006
The Penelopiad
2006
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Seventh Edition
2006
Backpack Literature--Second Edition
2008
Canadian poetry in English
2008
Freedom
2010
The Year of the Flood
2010
Canada
2013
MaddAddam
2013
The Testaments
2019
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100 Great Poems by Women
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
40 Short Stories--Fifth Edition
A História de Uma Serva