Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000.
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One of the best things about being a writer is you get to spend all day discovering fascinating things about the world and call it research. My most recent book is BITTER GREENS, a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale interwoven with the dramatic life story of the woman who first wrote the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de la Force. While researching the motif of hair...
This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Last night at the Sydney Writers' Festival opening night ceremony, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about the importance of putting forth multiple stories into the world. She told us about growing up in Nigeria and reading children's books from Britain and the United States. In these books, she...
Books by Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale: Vintage 21
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 03/10/2011
A special celebratory edition to mark the 21st birthday of Vintage books.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 15/09/2006
'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph
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Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 07/03/1997
'A novelist and poet of great gifts' - Guardian
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Bodily Harm
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 08/11/1996
'As swift-moving as the best thriller, clipped and laconic, yet deeply and richly sensitive' - Sunday Telegraph
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 08/11/1996
'A remarkable collection' - Sunday Times
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Life Before Man
by Margaret AtwoodPublished: 08/11/1996
'A splendid work...superb' - Marilyn French
