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Not to be confused with Margaret Atwood Judson.

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Born	Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-11-18) November 18, 1939 (age 85) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Education	\n University of Toronto (BA) \n Radcliffe College (MA) \n
Period	1961\u2013present
Genre	Historical fiction speculative fiction climate fiction dystopian fiction
Notable works	Surfacing (1972) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Cat's Eye (1988) Alias Grace (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Oryx and Crake (2003) The Testaments (2019)
Spouse	\n Jim Polk \n (m. 1968; div. 1973)
Partner	Graeme Gibson (1973\u20132019; his death)
Children	1
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 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. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards.^[2] A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.\n

Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and \"power politics\".^[3] Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age.^[4]\n

\nAtwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.

v t e Works by Margaret Atwood
Novels	\n The Edible Woman (1969) \n Surfacing (1972) \n Lady Oracle (1976) \n Life Before Man (1979) \n Bodily Harm (1981) \n The Handmaid's Tale (1985) \n Cat's Eye (1988) \n The Robber Bride (1993) \n Alias Grace (1996) \n The Blind Assassin (2000) \n Oryx and Crake (2003) \n The Penelopiad (2005) \n The Year of the Flood (2009) \n MaddAddam (2013) \n The Heart Goes Last (2015) \n Hag-Seed (2016) \n The Testaments (2019) \n
Short fiction collections	\n Dancing Girls (1977) \n Murder in the Dark (1983) \n Bluebeard's Egg (1983) \n Wilderness Tips (1991) \n Good Bones (1992) \n Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994) \n The Labrador Fiasco (1996) \n The Tent (2006) \n Moral Disorder (2006) \n Stone Mattress (2014) \n Old Babes in the Wood (2023) \n
Short stories	\n \"Rape Fantasies\" (1977) \n \"The Resplendent Quetzal\" (1977) \n \"Happy Endings\" (1983) \n \"Unearthing Suite\" (1983) \n \"Freeforall\" (1986) \n
Poetry collections	\n Double Persephone (1961) \n The Circle Game (1964) \n Expeditions (1965) \n Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966) \n The Animals in That Country (1968) \n The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) \n Procedures for Underground (1970) \n Power Politics (1971) \n You Are Happy (1974) \n Two-Headed Poems (1978) \n True Stories (1981) \n Interlunar (1984) \n Morning in the Burned House (1995) \n The Door (2007) \n Dearly (2020) \n
Non-fiction	\n Survival (1972) \n Negotiating with the Dead (2002) \n Writing with Intent (2005) \n Payback (2008) \n Burning Questions (2022) \n
Film and television	\n Heaven on Earth (1987) \n

v t e Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Novels	\n The Handmaid's Tale (1985) \n The Testaments (2019) \n
Adaptations	\n The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film) \n The Handmaid's Tale (1998 opera) \n The Handmaid's Tale (2017 TV series)\n characters \n episodes\n \"Offred\" \n
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v t e VH1 Trailblazer Honors
2014	\n Orange Is the New Black cast \n Roberta Kaplan \n John Abdallah Wambere \n Edith Windsor \n
2015	\n Marsha Aizumi \n Connor Franta \n Sheila Lopez \n Arsham Parsi \n Bayard Rustin \n Dennis Shepard \n Judy Shepard \n
2016	\n The Advocate \n Harvey Fierstein \n Marsha P. Johnson \n Billie Jean King \n Subhi Nahas \n Sylvia Rivera \n
2017	\n Alvin Ailey \n Jason Collins \n Cleve Jones \n David Kohan \n Cyndi Lauper \n Max Mutchnick \n
2018	\n American Civil Liberties Union \n James Baldwin \n Sybrina Fulton \n Tracy Martin \n Ryan Murphy \n
2019	\n Margaret Atwood \n Tarana Burke \n Ava DuVernay \n Nancy Pelosi \n

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