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Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC FRSL (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.
Margaret Atwood at the Time100 Summit in New York City on April 24, 2024 Margaret Atwood does not fear the great unknown. The acclaimed novelist and poet, 84, was a guest on NPR’s Wild Card with ...
The Edible Woman is the first novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, published in 1969. It is the story of a young woman, Marian, whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated.
To Atwood, the central image of Canadian literature, equivalent to the image of the island in British literature and the frontier in American literature, is the notion of survival and its central character the victim. Atwood claims that both English and French novels, short stories, plays and poems participate in creating this theme as the ...
As in most of Atwood's works, this collection of poetry explores many tensions or dualities such as the tensions between man and woman, perception and reality, and many more. The Circle Game focuses particularly on the tension between perception and reality; at first glance something may seem harmless or even friendly, but deeper inspection ...
To Margaret Atwood, in "The Wizard of Oz" the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) and the Tin Woodman (Jack Hale) embody male anxiety over surging feminism (Dorothy, played by ...
Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart , it won the Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West .
A George Saunders-like reimagining of a European folk tale; an interview between “Margaret Atwood” and George Orwell, conducted through a séance; a Tennyson-esque lament for a dead pet ...