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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays.
In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008.
Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto, Canada.
Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Mystery
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy
1. Oryx and Crake (2003)
2. The Year of the Flood (2009)
aka God's Gardeners
3. Maddaddam (2013)
1. Oryx and Crake (2003)
2. The Year of the Flood (2009)
aka God's Gardeners
3. Maddaddam (2013)
Novels
The Edible Woman (1969)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Up in the Tree (1978)
Life before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Unearthing Suite (1983)
The Labrador Fiasco (1986)
Cat's Eye (1988)
For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Up in the Tree (1978)
Life before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Unearthing Suite (1983)
The Labrador Fiasco (1986)
Cat's Eye (1988)
For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Omnibus
Collections
Double Persephone (1961)
The Circle Game (poems) (1967)
The Animals in That Country (poems) (1968)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (poems) (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (poems) (1971)
You Are Happy (poems) (1974)
Selected Poems (poems) (1976)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Two-Headed Poems (poems) (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
Murder in the Dark (poems) (1983)
Interlunar (poems) (1984)
Selected Poems II (poems) (1986)
Poems 1965-1975 (poems) (1987)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Poems 1976-1986 (poems) (1992)
Good Bones (1992)
Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
Morning in the Burned House (poems) (1995)
Bones and Murder (1995)
Ten (1996) (with T C Boyle, Nadine Gordimer, David Guterson, Jay McInerney, Candia McWilliam, Will Self, Patrick Süskind and Tobias Wolff)
Eating Fire (poems) (1998)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
The Door (poems) (2007)
Hymns of the God's Gardeners (poems) (2009)
Crimespotting (2009) (with Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Chris Brookmyre, John Burnside, Isla Dewar, A L Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and James Robertson)
I'm with the Bears (2011) (with Paolo Bacigalupi, T C Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson and Helen Simpson)
Stone Mattress (2014)
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie (poems) (2014)
The Blind Assassin / The Handmaid's Tale / The Robber Bride / Alias Grace (2016)
A Trio of Tolerable Tales (2017)
Freedom (2018)
The Circle Game (poems) (1967)
The Animals in That Country (poems) (1968)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (poems) (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (poems) (1971)
You Are Happy (poems) (1974)
Selected Poems (poems) (1976)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Two-Headed Poems (poems) (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
Murder in the Dark (poems) (1983)
Interlunar (poems) (1984)
Selected Poems II (poems) (1986)
Poems 1965-1975 (poems) (1987)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Poems 1976-1986 (poems) (1992)
Good Bones (1992)
Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
Morning in the Burned House (poems) (1995)
Bones and Murder (1995)
Ten (1996) (with T C Boyle, Nadine Gordimer, David Guterson, Jay McInerney, Candia McWilliam, Will Self, Patrick Süskind and Tobias Wolff)
Eating Fire (poems) (1998)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
The Door (poems) (2007)
Hymns of the God's Gardeners (poems) (2009)
Crimespotting (2009) (with Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Chris Brookmyre, John Burnside, Isla Dewar, A L Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and James Robertson)
I'm with the Bears (2011) (with Paolo Bacigalupi, T C Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson and Helen Simpson)
Stone Mattress (2014)
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie (poems) (2014)
The Blind Assassin / The Handmaid's Tale / The Robber Bride / Alias Grace (2016)
A Trio of Tolerable Tales (2017)
Freedom (2018)
Chapbooks
Picture Books
Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce Barkhouse)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
Novellas
Death by Landscape (1989)
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth (2012)
Moral Disorder: A Story (2014)
The Bad News (2018)
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth (2012)
Moral Disorder: A Story (2014)
The Bad News (2018)
Series contributed to
Myths
2. The Penelopiad (2003)
The Myths Volume I - VI (omnibus) (2006) (with David Grossman, Victor Pelevin and Jeanette Winterson)
The Myths Series Collection Books 1-3 (omnibus) (2016) (with Karen Armstrong and Jeanette Winterson)
2. The Penelopiad (2003)
The Myths Volume I - VI (omnibus) (2006) (with David Grossman, Victor Pelevin and Jeanette Winterson)
The Myths Series Collection Books 1-3 (omnibus) (2016) (with Karen Armstrong and Jeanette Winterson)
Anthologies edited
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1987) (with Robert Weaver)
The Canlit Foodbook (1987)
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1987) (with Robert Weaver)
The Canlit Foodbook (1987)
Non fiction
Survival (1972)
Second Words (1982)
Strange Things (1995)
On Writers and Writing (2002)
Moving Targets (2004)
Writing with Intent (2005)
Curious Pursuits (2005)
Waltzing Again (2006)
Payback (2007)
Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine (2009)
In Other Worlds (2011)
The World Split Open (2014) (with Edward P Jones, Ursula K Le Guin, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner)
Dire Cartographies: The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale (2015)
The Burgess Shale (2017)
Second Words (1982)
Strange Things (1995)
On Writers and Writing (2002)
Moving Targets (2004)
Writing with Intent (2005)
Curious Pursuits (2005)
Waltzing Again (2006)
Payback (2007)
Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine (2009)
In Other Worlds (2011)
The World Split Open (2014) (with Edward P Jones, Ursula K Le Guin, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner)
Dire Cartographies: The Roads to Ustopia and The Handmaid's Tale (2015)
The Burgess Shale (2017)
Anthologies containing stories by Margaret Atwood
First Words (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Virtually Now (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Wild Women (1997)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
Virtually Now (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Wild Women (1997)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
Short stories
| When it Happens (1983) | |||
| Freeforall (1986) | |||
| Homelanding (1989) | |||
| Daphne and Laura and So Forth (1995) | |||
| Half-Hanged Mary (1995) | |||
| Shopping (1998) |
Awards
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Margaret Atwood recommends
Doctor Glas (1905)
Hjalmar Söderberg
"Doctor Glas is one of those marvellous books that appears as fresh and vivid now as on the day it was published..."
My Heart Is Broken (1982)
Mavis Gallant
"Mavis Gallant's insights into her characters are achieved with breathtaking economy and lightness of detail. She is a terrifyingly good writer - one of the best Canadian writers of short stories I know."
Mary Swann (1987)
Carol Shields
"Deft, funny, poignant, surprising, and beautifully shaped - in total command of itself and its language."
My Father's House (1987)
Sylvia Fraser
"A beautifully written, heart-wrenching and ultimately healing story be an amazing and courageous woman."
Mary Reilly (1990)
Valerie Martin
"An astonishing tour de force ... It gives us a fresh take on the famous Dr Jekyll and the infamous Mr Hyde. It also allows us backstairs into the shadowy Victorian world of devoted servants ... A tense drama ... Prime reading!"
Last Seen (1996)
Matt Cohen
"His best novel to date...Almost unbearably sad, it's also, at times, very funny...and full of a quirky, left-handed wisdom."
Island (2000)
Alistair MacLeod
"Beautifully crafted stories elegiac, honest, proud, and both eloquent and taciturn. Like their subjects... a wonderfully talented writer."
Life of Pi (2000)
Yann Martel
"A terrific book... fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore."
Gregorius (2007)
Bengt Ohlsson
"Both a riveting novel on its own merits and an astonishing gloss on an earlier masterpiece."
Good to a Fault (2008)
Marina Endicott
"There's heartbreak, there's joy, there are parts where you cry - and it's very high quality writing."
Generosity (2009)
Richard Powers
"If Powers were an American writer of the noneteenth century he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby Dick. His picture is that big."
Changing Planes (2014)
Ursula K Le Guin
"Le Guin, is a quintessentially American writer, of the sort for whom the quest for the Peaceable Kingdom is ongoing."
The Power (2016)
Naomi Alderman
"Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything."
The Corpses of the Future (2017)
Lynn Crosbie
"Astonishing and powerful! Love, grief, mortality, distilled."
Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
Jesmyn Ward
"This wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must."
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