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Margaret Atwood

 

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First name
Margaret
Last name
Atwood
Country
Canada
 

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Biography
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 and grew up in Northern Quebec and Ontario. One of Canada's most prominent writers, she has published over twenty books including poetry, novels, short story collections, and non-fiction.
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
Selected Publications
The Circle Game. (Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1964; Contact Press, 1966; House of Anansi, 1967, 1998).
The Edible Woman. (McClelland & Stewart, 1969; Andre Deutsch, 1969; Atlantic Little-Brown, 1970).
The Handmaid's Tale. (McClelland & Stewart, Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Cape, 1985).
Cat's Eye. (McClelland & Stewart, 1988; Doubleday, 1989; Bloomsbury, 1990).
Selected Poems 1966-1984. (Oxford University Press, 1990).
Wilderness Tips. (McClelland & Stewart, 1991; Doubleday, 1991; Bloomsbury, 1991).
Good Bones. (Coach House Press, 1992; Bloomsbury,1992; Doubleday,1994).
Morning in the Burned House. (McClelland & Stewart, 1995; Houghton Mifflin, 1995; Virago Press, 1995).
Alias Grace (novel). (McClelland & Stewart, 1996; Bloomsbury, 1996; Doubleday, 1996).
The Journals of Susanna Moodie. illus.by Charles Pachter.(Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1997).

Books in Print
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace. McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
Anna's Pet Blades. (co-author). James Lorimer, 1986.
Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse. Key Porter Books, 1990.
Bluebeard's Egg. McClelland & Stewart, 1983. Seal Books, 1984
Bodily Harm. McClelland & Stewart, 1981; Seal Books, 1982.
Cat's Eye. McClelland & Stewart, 1988; Seal Books, 1989.
Dancing Girls. McClelland & Stewart, 1977; Seal Books, 1978.
For the Birds. Douglas & McIntyre, 1990.
Good Bones. Coach House Press, 1992.
Interlunar. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Lady Oracle. McClelland & Stewart, 1976; Seal Books, 1977.
Life Before Man. McClelland & Stewart, 1979; Seal Books, 1980.
Morning in the Burned House. McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
Murder in the Dark. Coach House Press, 1983.
Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (co-editor). Oxford University Press, 1988.
Power Politics. House of Anansi Press, 1996.
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose. Anansi, 1991.
Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1976.
Selected Poems 1966-1984. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Surfacing. General Publishing, 1983; McClelland & Stewart, 1994.
The Canlit Foodbook. HarperCollins, 1987.
The Circle Game. House of Anansi, 1998.
The Edible Woman. McClelland & Stewart, 1989; Seal Books, 1978. (New Canadian Library);
The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland & Stewart, 1985; Seal Books, 1986.
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (editor). Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Robber Bride. McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
True Stories. Oxford University Press, 1981.
Wilderness Tips. McClelland & Stewart, 1991; Seal Books, 1992.
Awards and other achievements
Selected Awards
Governor General's Award for Poetry, 1966.
City of Toronto Book Award, 1977, 1986, 1989.
Companion of the Order of Canada, 1981.
Welsh Arts Council International Writer's Prize, 1982.
Governor General's Award for Fiction, 1986.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1987.
Centennial Medal, Harvard University, 1990.
Trillium Book Award, 1992, 1994, 1995.
Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Government of France, 1994.
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence London, U.K., 1994.
Numerous Honorary degrees.
Giller Prize, 1996.
 

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