Margaret Atwood

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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 collection.
1964
The Circle Game
Poetry collection.
1965
Expeditions
Poetry collection.
1965
Kaleidoscopes Baroque
A Poem
1965
Talismans For Children
Poetry collection.
1966
Speeches For Doctor Frankenstein
Poetry collection.
1969
The Edible Woman (novel)
1969
The Animals in That Country
Poetry collection.
1970
The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Poetry collection.
1970
Procedures for Underground
Poetry collection.
1972
Surfacing (novel)
1972
Survival
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
1973
Power Politics
Poetry collection.
1975
You Are Happy
Poetry collection.
1976
Lady Oracle (novel)
1976
Selected Poems
Poetry collection.
1977
Dancing Girls (short stories)
1977
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (nonfiction)
1978
Two-Headed Poems
Poetry collection.
1978
Up in the Tree (children)
1979
Life Before Man (novel)
1980
Anna's Pet (children)
1981
Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written (poetry)
1981
True Stories
Poetry collection.
1981
Bodily Harm (novel)
1982
Encounters with the Element Man (novel)
1982
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (nonfiction)
1983
Murder in the Dark (short stories)
1983
Bluebeard's Egg (short stories)
1983
Unearthing Suite (novel)
1983
Snake Poems
Poetry collection.
1984
Interlunar (poetry)
1985
The Handmaid's Tale (novel)
1986
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 (poetry)
1988
Cat's Eye (novel)
1990
Selected Poems 1966-1984 (poetry)
1990
For The Birds (children)
1991
Wilderness Tips (short stories)
1991
Margaret Atwood Poems 1965-1975 (poetry)
1992
Good Bones and Simple Murders (short stories)
1993
The Robber Bride (novel)
1995
Morning in the Burned House (poetry)
1995
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (nonfiction)
1995
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (children)
1996
Alias Grace (novel)
1998
Eating Fire; Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (poetry)
1998
Two Solicitudes: Conversations (nonfiction)
2000
The Blind Assassin (novel)
2002
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (nonfiction)
2003
Oryx and Crake (novel)
2003
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (children)
2004
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (nonfiction)
2004
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (children)
2005
The Penelopiad (novel)
2006
The Tent (short stories)
2006
Moral Disorder
A series of interconnected stories.
2007
The Door (poetry)
2008
Payback (non-fiction)
2009
The Year of the Flood (novel)
2011
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
2011
In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
2012
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth
2013
MaddAddam
 
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Awards

  • Canada Reads
    • 2002 – The Handmaid's Tale – Shortlisted
    • 2005 – Oryx and Crake – Shortlisted
    • 2014 – The Year of the Flood – Shortlisted

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Added 10 January 2006.
Updated 28 November 2013.