Margaret Atwood

About Margaret Atwood

A Canadian poet and novelist known for her bleak, dystopian work, The Handmaid's Tale, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times. Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake, and Surfacing are some of her other well-known works.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 collections of poems, 18 novels, 11 non-fiction books, 9 collections of short novels, 8 children's books and 2 graphic novels, as well as several press editions. small about poetry and novels. . Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for his writings, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Presidential Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, and the Citadel Award. Lifetime Achievement of the PEN Center and the US National Book Critics. Some of his works have been adapted into cinema and television. Atwood's works cover a wide variety of topics, including gender and identity, religion and mythology, language power, climate change, and 'power politics'. Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales that fascinated her from a young age.

Born	November 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Notable works	Surfacing (1972), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Cat's Eye (1988), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Testaments (2019)
Period	1961–present
Genre	Historical fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction, dystopian fiction
Partner	Graeme Gibson (1973–2019, his death)
Education	University of Toronto (BA), Harvard University (MA)

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Trivia

She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

Margaret Atwood before fame

Her poetry was first published while she was a student at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She went on to teach at the University of British Columbia, Montreal's Sir George Williams University, and the University of Alberta.

Achievement of Margaret Atwood

A Guggenheim scholarship was bestowed upon her.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Margaret Atwood family life

From 1968 to 1973, she was married to Jim Polk. Eleanor, her daughter, was born in 1976 to her and her partner, Graeme Gibson.

Associations of Margaret Atwood

Her novel The Handmaid's Tale earned her the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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