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Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honored 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. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.
While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published fifteen books of poetry to date. Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which have been interests of hers from an early age. Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines. She has also published four collections of stories and three collections of unclassifiable short prose works.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Atwood is the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist, and Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist. Due to her father’s ongoing research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of Northern Quebec and traveling back and forth between Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie, and Toronto. She did not attend school full-time until she was in eighth grade. She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books. She attended Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957.
Atwood began writing at the age of six and realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16. In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto. Her professors included Jay Macpherson, and Northrop Frye. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honors) and a minor in philosophy and French.
In late 1961, after winning the E.J. Pratt Medal for her privately printed book of poems, Double Persephone, she began graduate studies at Harvard's Radcliffe College with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University for two years but never finished because she failed to complete her dissertation on “The English Metaphysical Romance." She has taught at the University of British Columbia (1965), Sir George Williams University in Montreal (1967–68), the University of Alberta (1969–70), York University in Toronto (1971–72), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (1985), where she was visiting M.F.A. Chair, and New York University, where she was Berg Professor of English.
In June 2011, Margaret Atwood was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature (honoris causa) from the National University of Ireland, Galway .
In 1968, Atwood married Jim Polk; they were divorced in 1973. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon after and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, north of Toronto, where their daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson was born in 1976. The family returned to Toronto in 1980.
The Economist called her a "scintillating wordsmith" and an "expert literary critic", but commented that her logic does not match her prose in Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a book which commences with the conception of debt and its kinship with justice. Atwood claims that this concept is ingrained in the human psyche, that it is apparent in early historical peoples, who associated their understanding of debt with that of justice, ideas that are typically exemplified by a female deity. Atwood holds that, with the rise of Ancient Greece, and especially the installation of the court system detailed in Aeschylus's Oresteia, this deity has been replaced by a more thorough conception of debt.
In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film by Michael Rubbo, Margaret Atwood: Once in August. In 2003, Shaftesbury Films produced an anthology series, The Atwood Stories, which dramatized six of Atwood's short stories.
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MaddAddam Series
Margaret Atwood - Oryx And Crake (read by Campbell Scott)
Margaret Atwood - The Year Of The Flood (read by Bernadette Dunne, Katie MacNichol, Mark Bramhall)
Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam (read by Bernadette Dunne, Bob Walter, Robbie Daymond)
The Handmaid's Tale Series
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (read by Amy Landecker, Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Ann Dowd)
Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (read by Derek Jacobi, Margaret Atwood, Mae Whitman, Tantoo Cardinal, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard)
Non Series
Margaret Atwood - Fourteen Days (read by Shayna Small)
Margaret Atwood - Furies (read by Gabrielle Glaister, Anna Bentinck, Shaheen Khan, Laura Aikman, Katie Leung)
Margaret Atwood - Old Babes In The Wood (read by Bahni Turpin, Dan Stevens, Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Allan Corduner, Linda Lavin, Margaret Atwood, Dawn Harvey)
Margaret Atwood - Bodily Harm (read by Angela Nevard)
Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother (read by Hillary Huber)
Margaret Atwood - Dearly (read by Margaret Atwood)
Margaret Atwood - On Writers And Writing (read by Margaret Atwood)
Margaret Atwood - Academy Of American Poets (read by Margaret Atwood)
Margaret Atwood - Hag-Seed (read by R.H. Thompson)
Margaret Atwood - Angel Catbird (read by Kyra Harper, Allegra Fulton, Christo Graham, Julie Le Mieux, David Calderisi, Michael Cash, Andrew Jackson)
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (read by Lorelei King)
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace (read by Margaret Atwood, Sarah Gadon)
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye (read by Barbara Caruso)
Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride (read by Bernadette Dunn)
Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad (read by Laural Merlington)
Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman (read by Lorelei King)
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing (read by Laurel Lefkow)
Margaret Atwood - The Heart Goes Last (read by Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins)
Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress (read by Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Bernadette Dunne, Arthur Morey, Emily Rankin, Lorna Raver)
Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle (read by Lorelei King)
Margaret Atwood - Moral Disorder (read by Susan Denaker)
Margaret Atwood - Bluebeards Egg And Other Stories (read by Bonnie Hurren)
Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man (read by Lorelei King)
Margaret Atwood - In Other Worlds (read by Margaret Atwood, Susan Denaker)
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