Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

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Date of birth: 1939-11-18
Place of birth: Ottawa

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. 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. 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

Name	Format	ISBN	Release Date
Katzenauge (Margaret Atwood)	Paperback	3-596-11175-7	1992-07
Der Salzgarten: Short Stories	Paperback	3-596-13435-8	1996-11
Der Report der Magd	Paperback	3-596-25987-8	1989-04
The Handmaid’s Tale (Heinemann hardcover)	Hardcover	978-0-435124-09-0	1993
The Penelopiad	eBook	9781847673589	2018-11-20

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Margaret Atwood wrote The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood wrote Rövarbruden
Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood wrote Oryx and Crake(original English title)
Margaret Atwood wrote Oryx & Crake(Swedish title)
Margaret Atwood wrote Tjänarinnans berättelse
Margaret Atwood wrote The Testaments
Margaret Atwood wrote A Travel Piece
Margaret Atwood wrote Der Report der Magd
Margaret Atwood wrote Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood wrote Katzenauge(Margaret Atwood novel)
Margaret Atwood wrote Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother
Margaret Atwood wrote Bedeutende Augenblicke im Leben meiner Mutter
Margaret Atwood wrote Hurricane Hazel
Margaret Atwood wrote Hurrikan Hazel
Margaret Atwood wrote Loulou or The Domestic Life of the Language
Margaret Atwood wrote Loulou oder Das häusliche Leben der Sprache
Margaret Atwood wrote Uglypuss(English)
Margaret Atwood wrote Uglypuss(German translation)
Margaret Atwood wrote Two Stories about Emma
Margaret Atwood wrote Zwei Geschichten über Emma
Margaret Atwood wrote Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood wrote Blaubarts Ei
Margaret Atwood wrote Spring Song of the Frogs
Margaret Atwood wrote Frühlingslied der Frösche
Margaret Atwood wrote Scarlet Ibis
Margaret Atwood wrote Scharlachroter Ibis
Margaret Atwood wrote The Salt Garden
Margaret Atwood wrote Der Salzgarten
Margaret Atwood wrote In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain
Margaret Atwood wrote Auf der Suche nach der Netzblattorchidee
Margaret Atwood wrote The Sunrise
Margaret Atwood wrote Der Sonnenaufgang
Margaret Atwood wrote Unearthing Suite
Margaret Atwood wrote Suite der Entdeckungen
Margaret Atwood wrote The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood wrote Die eßbare Frau
Margaret Atwood wrote Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood wrote Lady Orakel
Margaret Atwood wrote The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood wrote The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood wrote MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood is part of Booker Prize(authors) (number: 2000)
Margaret Atwood wrote Der blinde Mörder
Margaret Atwood wrote The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood wrote When It Happens
Margaret Atwood wrote Wenn es passiert

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109322990

Wikidata ID

Q183492

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