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Sep 12, 2024 · Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her notable books include The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Testaments (2019). Learn more about Atwood’s life and work.
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Margaret Atwood studied English, with minors in philosophy and French, at the University of Toronto (1957–61). She obtained an MA at Radcliffe College, Harvard in 1962. The influence of professors Jay MacPherson and Northrop Frye directed her early poetry toward myth and archetype in her first book, Double Persephone (1961). Atwood's reputation as ...
Atwood also had a distinguished teaching career. She held positions at the University of British Columbia (1964–65), Sir George Williams University (1967–68; now Concordia University), and York University(1971–72).
In the 1970s, Atwood was involved with nationalist cultural concerns as an editor for House of Anansi Press (1971–73) and as an editor and political cartoonist for This Magazine. She published Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature in 1972. When first released, it was considered the most original book ever written about Canadian literatu...
In 1980, Margaret Atwood became vice-chair of the Writers' Union of Canada. She worked on a television drama, Snowbird (CBC, 1981), and co-published another children's book, Anna's Pet(1980), with Joyce Barkhouse. It was adapted for stage by the Mermaid Theatre (1986). Always interested in civil liberties, Atwood was active over several years in Am...
New collections of Atwood’s poetry appeared in Canada and England with Selected Poems 1966-1984 (1990), followed by Margaret Atwood: Poems 1965-1975 (1991). Wilderness Tips (1991) received the 1992 Trillium Book Award and the Book of the Year Award from the Periodical Marketers of Canada. It contains stories with Gothic overtones about women facing...
The Blind Assassin was published in 2000, to great popular and critical acclaim. It won the Booker Prize and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. Set in the first half of the 20th century, The Blind Assassinis a multi-layered narrative collage. Critics praised Atwood's deft handling of multiple voices, pers...
More recently, and lightly, Atwood and British co-writer Naomi Alderman consider the uncanny and undead in the serialized comic-horror zombie novel The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(2012–13). Atwood’s biggest successes of the 2010s came from the renewed interest in her 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. A 10-part television series adaptation aired in the...
Margaret Atwood is arguably Canada’s most honoured author. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as more than 20 honorary degrees. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981. She received the Order of Ontario in 1990. She has won two Governo...
Apr 10, 2017 · Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia. Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real. By Rebecca Mead....
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood’s most famous work, takes place in a world where a dictatorial regime has taken power and women are treated as state property. Atwood says she’s...
Six reasons to read Margaret Atwood (and what to read...) Controversial, outspoken, and always challenging, Canadian-born Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s most celebrated and visionary...
MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.
