Margaret Atwood
Author of The Handmaid's Tale
About the Author
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A. from Radcliff College in 1962. Her first book of verse, Double Persephone, was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has show more published numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Power Politics, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Morning in the Buried House, the MaddAdam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last. She has won numerous awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin, the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello for Alias Grace, and the Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The Handmaid's Tale, which also won the very first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987. She won the PEN Pinter prize in 2016 for her political activism. She was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize for the outstanding literary merit of her body of work. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Margaret Atwood
Cut and Thirst - story 120 copies
The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume 1: The Early Years (1993) — Editor; Introduction — 30 copies
The CanLit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate, a Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (1987) — Author; Illustrator — 28 copies
Happy Endings 21 copies
The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Volume 2: The Later Years (2001) — Editor; Introduction — 19 copies
Alias Grace (2 for 1-Cat's Eye) 19 copies
Happy Zombie Sunrise Home 14 copies
People Who Make a Difference / Des gens peu ordinaires (English and French Edition) (1995) 12 copies
Moppet Shop: Positron, Episode Five 6 copies
The Myths (A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus / Helmet of Horror / Lion's Honey) (2006) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Robber Bride [Includes the Short Story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'] (2009) 5 copies
Double Persephone 5 copies
Rape Fantasies 4 copies
White Horse 4 copies
The Margaret Atwood 4-Book Bundle: The Handmaid's Tale; The Blind Assassin; Alias Grace; The Robber Bride (2016) 3 copies
The Female Body 3 copies
Quatro Contos Consonantes 3 copies
Lusus Naturae [short story] 3 copies
The Man from Mars 2 copies
The Evil Mother 2 copies
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein 2 copies
"The Grave of the Famous Poet" 2 copies
Bluebeard's Egg [short story] 2 copies
Margaret Atwood Reads the Animals in That Country/You Are Happy/Power Politics and Other Poems/Cassette (1993) 2 copies
The world as it is : In the eyes of Margaret Atwood, Wole Soyinka, Ai Weiwei (1986) — Contributor — 1 copy
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 1 copy
"Tree Baby" 1 copy
Erase Me: Positron Episode 3 1 copy
Scarlet Ibis 1 copy
here after 1 copy
Liking Men [short story] 1 copy
Simmering [short story] 1 copy
"Something Has Happened " 1 copy
The Testaments (BBC Radio 4) 1 copy
"But It Could Still" 1 copy
Drei drollige Dramen 1 copy
My Evil Stepmother 1 copy
The Martians Claim Canada 1 copy
למעלה למעלה בעץ 1 copy
"Rat Song" 1 copy
Scribbler Moon 1 copy
"Landcrab I" 1 copy
"Landcrab II" 1 copy
Siren Song 1 copy
"Tricks with Mirrors" 1 copy
The Freeze-Dried Groom 1 copy
Nightengale 1 copy
"Giving Birth" 1 copy
Uglypuss {short story} 1 copy
"The Whirlpool Rapids" 1 copy
"When It Happens" 1 copy
Positron 1 copy
Die Kunst des Kochens und Auftragens: Gesammelte Erzählungen | Die besten Geschichten aus über sechzig Jahren (2021) 1 copy
Morte de Smudgie 1 copy
Fresh 1 copy
Two Scorched Men 1 copy
Impatient Griselda 1 copy
Surviving Progress 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Associated Works
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributor — 1,029 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 929 copies
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 516 copies
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Contributor — 485 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 352 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 316 copies
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributor — 302 copies
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contributor — 298 copies
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contributor — 188 copies
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 183 copies
The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group (1993) — Foreword, some editions — 161 copies
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contributor — 82 copies
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 72 copies
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributor — 64 copies
The Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power (1993) — Contributor — 57 copies
New Beginnings: New Writing from Bestselling Authors Sold in Aid of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Earthquake Charities (2005) — Contributor — 45 copies
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Contributor — 32 copies
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness into an… (2020) — Afterword — 28 copies
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Contributor — 21 copies
They Fought in Colour / La Guerre en couleur: A New Look at Canada's First World War Effort / Nouveau regard sur… (2018) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions (1993) — Contributor — 16 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Telegrams from Home, Vol. 1 — Contributor — 2 copies
Ein Haus mit vielen Zimmern: Autorinnen erzählen vom Schreiben (edition fünf 27) (German Edition) (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
- Other names
- Atwood, Peggy
- Birthdate
- 1939-11-18
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Education
- Leaside High School (1957)
University of Toronto (BA|1961)
Radcliffe College (MA|1962) - Occupations
- novelist
poet
cartoonist - Relationships
- Gibson, Graeme (partner)
- Awards and honors
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1961)
Companion, Order of Canada (1981)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1981)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)
Order of Ontario (1990)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1994) (show all 24)
Peggy V. Helmerich Award (1999)
Man Booker Prize (2000, 2019)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2007)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias (2008)
Nelly Sachs Prize (2010)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
PEN Pinter prize (2016)
Franz Kafka Prize (2017)
SF Hall Of Fame (2017)
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (1987)
Giller Prize (1996)
Hammet Prize (2000)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (2010)
Companion of Honour (2019)
Writer in the World (2024)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2017)
PEN Center USA Literary Award (2017)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2017) - Disambiguation notice
- The Common Knowledge entries on this page refer to the Canadian poet and novelist.
Please note that there is also an author named Margaret Attwood (double "t"). Please ensure that you have your author's name spelled correctly.
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June 2024: Margaret Atwood in Monthly Author Reads (Saturday 9:20am)
Found: Girls in red dresses, nuns (?) taking care of them in Name that Book (January 2023)
April 2019: Margaret Atwood in Monthly Author Reads (May 2022)
2019 Booker Prize Longlist: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood in Booker Prize (July 2019)
November Read: Margaret Atwood in Virago Modern Classics (December 2017)
May 2013: Margaret Atwood in Monthly Author Reads (April 2017)
Canadian Author Challenge — April: Margaret Atwood & Michael Crummey in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (May 2016)
Atwood April 2015 in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (May 2015)
"Maddaddam": What's your verdict? SPOILERS ALLOWED in Girlybooks (November 2014)
The Penelopiad: The chorus of 12 young women in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: Framing in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: First Impressions in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: Legendary heroes in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: Modernizing The Odyssey? in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: Your opinions of characters in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: Introduce Yourself in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
The Penelopiad: A satire? in One LibraryThing, One Book (June 2014)
Atwood April 2014 in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (April 2014)
April Group Read - "Alias Grace" (SPOILERS) in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (May 2013)
Esquiress: Atwood April Showers, Thread 4 in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (May 2013)
Atwood April 2013 in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (May 2013)
April Group Read - "Alias Grace" (NO SPOILERS, PLEASE!) in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (April 2013)
THE ROBBER BRIDE - rolling book discussion - July '09 onwards... in Atwoodians (August 2012)
1001 Group Read-March: Cat's Eye in 1001 Books to read before you die (March 2012)
Oryx and Crake spoiler thread in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (February 2012)
GROUP READ: Oryx and Crake in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (January 2012)
Group Read: The Blind Assassin in 1001 Books to read before you die (February 2011)
Alias Grace---with potential SPOILERS in Orange January/July (January 2011)
Group Read (January): Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood (no spoilers!) in Orange January/July (January 2011)
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