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Margaret Atwood

(Margaret Eleanor Atwood)
Canada   (1939 - )
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About Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

She is the author of more than thirty books - novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children.

Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye - both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride; Alias Grace, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; and The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake (2003). She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
 
New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

God's Gardeners
God's Gardeners

Series contributed to
 
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and OdysseusCanongate Myth Series: Includes a Short History of Myth, the Penelopiad, Weight, and Dream Angus
 
Anthologies edited
The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A Collection of Tasty Literary FareThe Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English
 
Non fiction
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian LiteratureSecond Words: Selected Critical ProseStrange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian LiteratureNegotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005Curious PursuitsWaltzing Again: New & Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
 
Anthologies containing stories by Margaret Atwood
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary AuthorsThe Norton Book of Science FictionThe Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by WomenThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection
Wild Women
 
Short stories
When it Happens (1983)
Freeforall (1986)
Death by Landscape (1989)
Homelanding (1989)
Daphne and Laura and So Forth (1995)
Half-Hanged Mary (1995)
Shopping (1998)


Awards
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1986) : The Handmaid's Tale
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1987) : The Handmaid's Tale
Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1987) : The Handmaid's Tale
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel winner (1987) : The Handmaid's Tale
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1989) : Cat's Eye
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1996) : Alias Grace
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (1997) : Alias Grace
The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (2000) : The Blind Assassin
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Blind Assassin
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2003) : Oryx and Crake
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2004) : Oryx and Crake
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2006) : The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus


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Margaret Atwood recommends
Doctor Glas
Doctor Glas (1905)
Hjalmar Söderberg
"Doctor Glas is one of those marvellous books that appears as fresh and vivid now as on the day it was published …"
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983)
Breece D'J Pancake
"An exceptional voice."
Mary Swann
Mary Swann (1987)
Carol Shields
"Deft, funny, poignant, surprising, and beautifully shaped - in total command of itself and its language.""
Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly (1990)
Valerie Martin
"An astonishing tour de force ... It gives us a fresh take on the famous Dr Jekyll and the infamous Mr Hyde. It also allows us backstairs into the shadowy Victorian world of devoted servants ... A tense drama ... Prime reading!"
Italian Fever
Italian Fever (1999)
Valerie Martin
"Few have written so surprisingly, so convincingly, as Valerie Martin about sexual obsession."
Island: The Collected Short Stories of Alistair Macleod
Island: The Collected Short Stories of Alistair Macleod (2000)
Alistair MacLeod
"Beautifully crafted stories elegiac, honest, proud, and both eloquent and taciturn. Like their subjects... a wonderfully talented writer."
Life of Pi
Life of Pi (2001)
Yann Martel
"A terrific book... fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore."



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