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Margaret Atwood


(Margaret Eleanor Atwood)
Canada (b.1939)
Wife of Graeme Gibson

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.
 

Awards: Booker (2019), LA Times (1986)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
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Paper Boat
 
Series
Handmaid's Tale
   1. The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
   2. The Testaments (2019)
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MaddAddam Trilogy
   1. Oryx and Crake (2003)
   2. The Year of the Flood (2009)
     aka God's Gardeners
   3. Maddaddam (2013)
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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)
   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)
   Fourteen Days (2023) (with others)
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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)
   Dancing Girls (1977)
   Selected Poems (poems) (1978)
   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 others)
   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 others)
   I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)
   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)
   Dearly (poems) (2020)
   Furies (2023) (with others)
   Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
   Paper Boat (poems) (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Death by Landscape (1989)
   Bottle (2004)
   Moral Disorder: A Story (2014)
   The Bad News (2018)
   My Evil Mother (2022)
   Cut and Thirst (2024)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Myths
   2. The Penelopiad (2005)
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Books containing stories by Margaret Atwood
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A Darker Shade (2024)
New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates
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A Darker Shade of Noir (2023)
New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates
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First Light (2022)
A Celebration of Alan Garner
edited by
Erica Wagner

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Awards
2019 Booker Prize : The Testaments
2000 Booker Prize : The Blind Assassin
1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : The Handmaid's Tale
1986 Aurora Award for Best Novel : The Handmaid's Tale

Award nominations
2020 Prometheus Award (nominee) : The Testaments
2020 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Testaments
2020 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Testaments
2020 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : The Testaments
2014 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Maddaddam
2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Year of the Flood
2004 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : Oryx and Crake
2003 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Oryx and Crake
2002 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Blind Assassin
2001 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Blind Assassin
1998 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Alias Grace
1997 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : Alias Grace
1996 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Alias Grace
1989 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Cat's Eye
1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Handmaid's Tale


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