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About Margaret Atwood
Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published fiction, poetry, nonfiction, children’s books, and graphic novels, and she is best known for her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Her work spans 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children’s books, and two graphic novels, along with small-press editions of poetry and fiction. She has received major honors including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and lifetime achievement awards from the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA. Several of her works have been adapted for film and television.
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History: more sayings
- “Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.”Fred Eychaner
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Books by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
1986
alias Grace
1997
The Year of the Flood
2010
The Blind Assassin
2011
The Penelopiad
2006