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Margaret Atwood

  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Date of birth
1939-11-18
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (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. 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". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.

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.

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Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

Series:
• Maddaddam Trilogy
• The Handmaid's Tale

Last modified: 2020-08-12 (revision #20404)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Katzenauge (Margaret Atwood)Paperback3-596-11175-71992-07
Der Salzgarten: Short StoriesPaperback3-596-13435-81996-11
Der Report der MagdPaperback3-596-25987-81989-04
Die Unmöglichkeit der NähePaperback3-442-72769-32001-05
The Handmaid’s Tale (Heinemann hardcover)Hardcover978-0-435124-09-01993
The PenelopiadeBook97818476735892018-11-20
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