Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing.
ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, 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; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, published in September, 2019. She lives in Toronto some of the time.
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Fiction, Literature, short story, freedom, meaning of love, selfhood, self-fulfilment, Collections, Juvenile fiction, English literature, American literature, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author), Women authors, Children's fiction, short stories, Canadian Short stories, College readers, Short stories, Classic Literature, History, Study and teaching (Secondary), Islands, Big game sport, Canadian fiction, CossacksPlaces
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- OLID: OL52922A
- ISNI: 0000000123215491
- VIAF: 109322990
- Wikidata: Q183492
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- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
- Atwood M.
- Atwood M
- Atwood Margaret
- Margaret ATWOOD
- margaret atwood
- Atwood, Margaret
- مارغريت آتوود
- كاتبة كندية
- Margaret Atwood
- مارگارت آتوود
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