Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-11-18) November 18, 1939 (age 84) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Education
University of Toronto (BA)
Radcliffe College (MA)
Period
1961–present
Genre
Historical fiction
speculative fiction
climate fiction
dystopian fiction
Notable works
Surfacing (1972)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Cat's Eye (1988)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
Oryx and Crake (2003)
The Testaments (2019)
Spouse
Jim Polk
(m. 1968; div. 1973)
Partner
Graeme Gibson (1973–2019; his death)
Children
1
Signature
Atwood's voice
from BBC Radio 4's Front Row, July 24, 2007[1]
Website
margaretatwood.ca
Margaret Eleanor AtwoodCC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic. 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 Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards.[2] A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".[3] Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.[4]
Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.
^"Margaret Atwood". Front Row. July 24, 2007. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
^"Awards List". margaretatwood.ca. Archived from the original on December 26, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
^Marion, Wynne-Davies (2010). Margaret Atwood. British Council. Horndon, Tavistock, Devon: Northcote, British Council. ISBN 978-0746310366. OCLC 854569504.
^Oates, Joyce Carol. "Margaret Atwood: Poet", The New York Times, May 21, 1978.
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