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Regarded as one of Canada’s finest living writers, Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, story writer, essayist, and environmental activist. Her books have received critical acclaim in the United States, Europe, and her native Canada, and she has received numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Governor General’s Award, twice.
Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood, multitalented Canadian essayist, scriptwriter, children's author, fiction writer, and social critic, reached world-class status with the bestselling novel The Handmaid's Tale, a complex and disturbing futuristic thriller that placed the author among the twentieth century's leading feminist writers.
Apr 10, 2017 · Rebecca Mead on Margaret Atwood, the author of dystopian novels about misogyny, oppression, and environmental destruction, such as “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1939. She moved with her family to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945 and to Toronto, Canada, in 1946. Until she was eleven she spent half of each year in the northern Ontario wilderness, where her father worked as an entomologist (insect scientist).
Margaret Atwood. Margaret Eleanor Atwood OC, OrdOnt, SRC ( Ottawa, 18 de novembro de 1939) é uma escritora canadense, romancista, poetisa, contista, ensaísta e crítica literária internacionalmente reconhecida, tendo recebido inúmeros prêmios literários importantes. Foi agraciada com a Ordem do Canadá, a mais alta distinção em seu país.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood CH CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. She is best known for writing novels. She has also published 15 books of poetry. [3] The Edible Woman was her first novel, published in 1969. Her novel The Handmaid's Tale was the first winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, in 1987.
OCLC. 35936659. Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West.
