Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and political activist, best-known for her novel The Handmaid's Tale.
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Works
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Novels
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life Before Man (1979) - finalist for the 1979 Governor General's Award
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) - winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1985 Governor General's Award.
- Cat's Eye (1988) - finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award
- The Robber Bride (1993) - finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award
- Alias Grace (1996) - winner of the 1996 Giller Prize and finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Award
- The Blind Assassin (2000) - winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award
- Oryx and Crake (2003) - finalist for the 2003 Governor General's Award
- The Penelopiad (2005) - longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award
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Poetry collections
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964) - winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- You Are Happy (1974)
- Selected Poems (1976)
- Two-Headed Poems (1978)
- True Stories (1981)
- Love songs of a Terminator (1983)
- Interlunar (1984)
- Morning in the Burned House (1996)
- "The Moment" from Morning in Burned House, online at CBC Words at Large
- Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998)
- The Door (2007)
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Short fiction collections
- Dancing Girls (1977) - winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction
- Murder in the Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Through the One-Way Mirror (1986)
- Wilderness Tips (1991) - finalist for the 1991 Governor General's Award
- Good Bones (1992)
- Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
- The Tent (2006)
- Moral Disorder (2006)
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Anthologies edited
- The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
- The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (1987)
- The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
- The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel)
- The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1995)
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Other short stories
- Death by Landscape
- Rape Fantasies (1977)
- Unearthing Suite (1983)
- When it Happens (1983)
- Freeforall (1986)
- Homelanding (1989)
- Daphne and Laura and So Forth (1995)
- Half-Hanged Mary (1995)
- The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
- Shopping (1998)
- Bread
- Happy Endings
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Children's books
- Up in the Tree (1978)
- Anna's Pet (1980) with Joyce C. Barkhouse
- For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
- Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
- Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
- Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
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Non-fiction
- Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
- Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
- Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
- Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
- Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004 (2004)
- Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 (2005)
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Drawings
- Kanadian Kultchur Komix featuring "Survivalwoman" in This Magazine under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975-1980
- Others appear on her website.
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