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Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood (born November 18,
1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic and one of the world's
best-selling authors. She was born in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada and attended school at
Victoria College in Toronto.
After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, which is where she currently
lives. She is married to the novelist Graeme Gibson.
Her writing often focuses on Feminist issues and concerns, which are often
examined in the guise of fiction or science fiction. She is also
known for her deep interest in Canada and Canadian fiction, a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her
non-fiction and edited work. In her novels, Atwood's narrative style usually
takes the form of stream-of-consciousness, the reader
not finding out everything until the very end of the book. She is also a prolific poet, with several chapbooks and major
collections published.
She is perhaps best known for her tale of an future dystopia in the novel The Handmaid's
Tale, her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin, as well as many other stories.
Complete Bibliography
Novels
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life before
Man (1979)
- Bodily
Harm (1981)
- Unearthing Suite (1983)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) - winner of the 1987 Arthur C.
Clarke Award
- Cat's
Eye (1989)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996) - winner of the 1996 Giller Prize
- The Blind Assassin (2000) - winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and the 2000 Governor General's Award
- Oryx and Crake (2003)
Poetry Collections
- Double
Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964)
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- You Are Happy
(1974)
- Selected Poems (1976)
- Two-Headed
Poems (1978)
- True Stories (1981)
- Morning in the Burned House (1996)
- Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998)
Short Fiction Collections
- Dancing
Girls (1977)
- Murder in the
Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's
Egg (1983)
- Wilderness Tips (1991)
- Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
Anthologies Edited
- The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
- The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A
Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (1987)
- The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
- The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989)
(with Shannon Ravenel)
Other Short Stories
- When it
Happens (1983)
- Freeforall (1986)
- The Labrador
Fiasco (1986)
- Death by
Landscape (1989)
- Homelanding (1989)
- Daphne and Laura and So Forth (1995)
- Half-Hanged
Mary (1995)
- Shopping (1998)
Children's Books
- Up in the Tree
(1978)
- Anna's Pet (1980)
- For the Birds
(1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
- Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Non-fiction
- Survival, A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
- Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
- Negotiating with the Dead, A Writer on Writing (2002)
- Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian
Literature (1995)
See also
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