Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born on November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and
literary critic. 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. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel ''
The Handmaid's Tale.'' 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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