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Margaret Atwood was born 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1961 and a Master of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1962. Atwood is married to writer Graeme Gibson and they live in Toronto.

Books by Margaret Atwood

	1961 Double Persephone (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1964 The Circle Game (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1965 Expeditions (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1965 Kaleidoscopes Baroque: A Poem (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1965 Talismans For Children (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1966 Speeches For Doctor Frankenstein (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1969 The Edible Woman (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1969 The Animals in That Country (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1970 The Journals of Susanna Moodie (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1970 Procedures for Underground (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1972 Surfacing (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1972 Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1973 Power Politics (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1975 You Are Happy (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1976 Lady Oracle (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1976 Selected Poems (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1977 Dancing Girls (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1977 Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1978 Two-Headed Poems (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1978 Up in the Tree (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1979 Life Before Man (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1980 Anna's Pet (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1981 Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1981 True Stories (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1981 Bodily Harm (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1982 Encounters with the Element Man (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1982 Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1983 Murder in the Dark (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1983 Bluebeard's Egg (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1983 Unearthing Suite (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1983 Snake Poems (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1984 Interlunar (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1985 The Handmaid's Tale (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1986 Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1988 Cat's Eye (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1990 Selected Poems 1966-1984 (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1990 For The Birds (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1991 Wilderness Tips (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1991 Margaret Atwood Poems 1965-1975 (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1992 Good Bones and Simple Murders (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1993 The Robber Bride (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1995 Morning in the Burned House (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1995 Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1995 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1996 Alias Grace (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1998 Eating Fire; Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	1998 Two Solicitudes: Conversations (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2000 The Blind Assassin (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2002 Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2003 Oryx and Crake (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2003 Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2004 Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2004 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (children)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2005 The Penelopiad (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2006 The Tent (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2006 Moral Disorder (short stories)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2007 The Door (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2008 Payback (non-fiction)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2009 The Year of the Flood (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
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Awards

• Canada Reads
  • 2002 – The Handmaid's Tale – Shortlisted
  • 2005 – Oryx and Crake – Shortlisted

• Combat des livres
  • 2004 – La servante écarlate – Shortlisted

• Evergreen Award
  • 2009 – Payback – Shortlisted

• Giller Prize
  • 1996 – Alias Grace – Winner
  • 2003 – Oryx and Crake – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1979 – Life Before Man – Shortlisted
  • 1985 – The Handmaid's Tale – Winner
  • 1988 – Cat's Eye – Shortlisted
  • 1991 – Wilderness Tips – Shortlisted
  • 1994 – The Robber Bride – Shortlisted
  • 1996 – Alias Grace – Shortlisted
  • 2000 – The Blind Assassin – Shortlisted
  • 2003 – Oryx and Crake – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Poetry
  • 1966 – The Circle Game – Winner
  • 2007 – The Door: Poems – Shortlisted

• Order of Canada
  • 1973 – Officer
  • 1981 – Companion

• White Pine Award
  • 2007 – The Penelopiad – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site

Added 10 January 2006.
Updated 10 June 2010.