Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, poet, novelist, critic (born 18 November 1939 in Ottawa, ON). A varied and prolific writer, Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's major contemporary authors.
November 18, 1939
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Birth of Margaret Atwood
Novelist Margaret Atwood, who is one of Canada's major contemporary authors, was born at Ottawa.
January 01, 1961
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Atwood published Double Persephone
Margaret Atwood self-published her first book, the collection of poetry, Double Persephone.
January 01, 1961
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Atwood Awarded Governor General's Award
Margaret Atwood's reputation as a poet was established when her second book, The Circle Game, was awarded the Governor General's Award.
January 01, 1969
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Atwood Published The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood published The Edible Woman, a novel in which themes of women's alienation echo those in her poetry.
January 01, 1970
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Atwood Published Procedures for Underground and The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Margaret Atwood published two books of poetry: Procedures for Underground and The Journals of Susanna Moodie.
January 01, 1971
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Atwood Published Power Politics
Margaret Atwood published Power Politics, where words were employed as a refuge for women against male force.
January 01, 1972
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Atwood Publishes Survival
Margaret Atwood published her interpretation of Canadian literature, Survival.
January 01, 1972
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Atwood Published Surfacing
Margaret Atwood's Surfacing was published, a novel in which the conflict between technology and nature is cast in political terms.
January 01, 1974
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Atwood Published You Are Happy
Margaret Atwood published You Are Happy, which includes a reworking of The Odyssey from Circe's perspective.
January 01, 1976
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Atwood Publishes Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood's third novel, Lady Oracle, a parody of fairy tales and Gothic romances, won the 1977 City of Toronto Book Award and a Canadian Booksellers Association Award.
January 01, 1977
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Atwood Published Dancing Girls
Margaret Atwood's short-story collection Dancing Girls won the Periodical Distributors of Canada Short Fiction Award.
January 01, 1978
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Atwood Published Two-Headed Poems and Up in the Tree
Margaret Atwood published Two-Headed Poems, which explored the duplicity of language, and Up in the Tree, a children's book.
January 01, 1979
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Atwood Published Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood published the novel Life Before Man.
January 01, 1980
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Atwood Co-Published Anna's Pet
Margaret Atwood co-published another children's book, Anna's Pet, with Joyce Barkhouse. In 1986 it was adapted for stage by Nova Scotia's Mermaid Theatre.
January 01, 1981
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Atwood Published True Stories and Bodily Harm
Margaret Atwood published True Stories, a book of poetry, and Bodily Harm, a novel.
May 22, 1981
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Atwood Made a Companion of the Order of Canada
Margaret Atwood is made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to literature as poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher."
January 01, 1982
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Atwood Published Second Words
Margaret Atwood's collected criticism, Second Words, was published. It contains some of the earliest feminist criticism written in Canada.
January 01, 1983
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Atwood Published Bluebeard's Egg
Margaret Atwood's short-story collection Bluebeard's Egg won the Periodical Distributors of Canada and the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters Book of the Year Award.
January 01, 1983
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Atwood Published Murder in the Dark
Margaret Atwood published Murder in the Dark, a collection of experimental prose poems and short fictions.
January 01, 1984
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Atwood President of PEN International's Anglo-Canadian Branch
Margaret Atwood became president of PEN International's Anglo-Canadian branch, on whose behalf she edited The CanLit Foodbook (1987).
January 01, 1984
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Atwood published Interlunar
Margaret Atwood published Interlunar, a book of poetry.
January 01, 1985
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Atwood Published The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid's Tale. The novel won the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris).
January 01, 1988
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Atwood Published Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye, a novel about a visual artist probing questions of subjectivity, creation and temporality, was published. The novel broke literary ground for its exploration of the realm of childhood, with its shifts of power, its secrecies and betrayals. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
January 01, 1991
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Atwood Published Wilderness Tips
Margaret Atwood published Wilderness Tips, winner of the 1992 Trillium Award and the Book of the Year Award of the Periodical Marketers of Canada. The book contains stories with Gothic overtones mixed with narratives about confrontations with the wilderness.
January 01, 1992
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Atwood Published Good Bones
Margaret Atwood published Good Bones. The work features brief texts about female body parts and social constraints written with devastating wit.
January 01, 1993
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Atwood Published The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood published one of her most intricate novels, The Robber Bride. The novel won the 1993 Canadian Authors Association Novel of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Prize for Canadian and Caribbean Region, and the 1994 Trillium Award.
January 01, 1995
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Atwood published Morning in the Burned House
Margaret Atwood published Morning in the Burned House. Her first collection of new poems in a decade, the work included a sequence of elegiac poems, demonstrating a new emotional range in her work.
January 01, 1996
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Atwood Published Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
Margaret Atwood published Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. The critique was originally delivered as a series of Clarendon Lectures in English Literature at Oxford University in 1991.
January 01, 1996
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Atwood Published Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood published the highly acclaimed novel Alias Grace. The book was nominated for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Orange Prize (UK) and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (Ireland). The book won the Giller Prize. It also quickly became an international best-seller.
January 01, 2000
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Atwood Published The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin was published to great popular and critical acclaim. This novel won the Booker Prize and was shortlisted for both the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. Set in the first half of the 20th century, The Blind Assassin is a multi-layered narrative collage.
January 01, 2003
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Atwood Published Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood returned to the science-fiction genre with her novel Oryx and Crake. Like The Handmaid's Tale, the book portrays a dystopian future, with humanity brought to the verge of extinction by contemporary social trends and technologies.
January 01, 2005
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Atwood Published The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad was published. In it, Atwood invites readers to reconsider the story of Homer's Odyssey as she adopts the perspective and voice of Penelope, backed by a chorus of maidens.
January 01, 2009
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Atwood Published The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood was published. The novel is set in the same time and place as Oryx and Crake. The plots of the two novels converge.
January 01, 2013
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Atwood Published MaddAddam
Completing a trilogy that includes Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood published MaddAddam.