Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.
While Margaret Atwood may be best known for her work as a novelist, she is also an award winning poet, having published 15 books of poetry to date. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths, and fairy tales, which were an interest of hers from an early age.
Margarate Atwood has also published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, Playboy, and many other magazines.
Photo: Margaret Atwood at Eden Mills Writers' Festival 2006, Blackwattle Bay. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Speculative Fiction Novels (12) | |
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2019 The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
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2016 Hag-Seed
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2015 The Heart Goes Last (Positron)
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2013 MaddAddam (MaddAddam)
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2013 The Heart Goes Last (Positron, #4)
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2012 Erase Me (Positron, #3)
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2012 Choke Collar (Positron, #2)
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2012 I'm Starved for You (Positron, #1)
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2009 The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam)
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2005 The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (The Myths)
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2003 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam)
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1985 The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Comics and Anthology (1) | |
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2019 The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
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