She has won the Booker Prize once, and the Governor General’s Award twice.
Clarke Award and the Prince of Asturias Award. She has won the literature awards, the Arthur C. Margaret Atwood has won more than 55 awards, including being awarded with nineteen honorary college degrees because of her well known written works. While she is most well known for being a novelist, she also has published fifteen books of poetry. She earned a Master Degree from Radcliffe in 1962. Pratt Medal for her collection of poems called Double Persephone (which is now out of print). In 1961, Atwell graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and then she went on to begin graduate studies at Harvard’s Radcliffe College, after she won the E.J. In 1957, she attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where she had written poems and articles that were published in the college literary journal called Acta Victoriana. She is the author of more than sixty-five books of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s books and critical essays and her written works have been published in over 35 countries.Īt sixteen, Margaret Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally. She has even written three television scripts. Atwood writes in many genres, including historical fiction and science fiction. She was awarded by the American Humanist Association, Humanist of the Year in 1987. Atwood is also an award winning humanist. Margaret Atwood is a very well known and highly acclaimed poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, inventor and environmental activist. Margaret Eleanor Atwood, whose birthdate is November 18, 1939, was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and she still resides in Canada. Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fictionįirst Light: A Celebration of Alan GarnerĬutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles When The Wild Comes Leaping Up: Personal Encounters With Nature The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short StoriesĬries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spiritualityįirst Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie The Journals of Susanna Moodie (With: Charles Pachter)
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