Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood; CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL
	Atwood in 2022
Born	Margaret Eleanor Atwood; 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
Website
	margaretatwood.ca

Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (born on 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.

[FrontRow-1] "Margaret Atwood". Front Row. July 24, 2007. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014.

[2] "Awards List". margaretatwood.ca. Archived from the original on December 26, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2021.

[3] Marion, Wynne-Davies (2010). Margaret Atwood. British Council. Horndon, Tavistock, Devon: Northcote, British Council. ISBN 978-0746310366. OCLC 854569504.

[Oates22-4] Oates, Joyce Carol. "Margaret Atwood: Poet", The New York Times, May 21, 1978.

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Margaret Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL
Atwood in 2022
Born	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