Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winni... More

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  • Nov 18, 1939 (age 72 years)

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  • Margarett Atwood,
  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood,
  • Atwood, Margaret
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  • 2000
  • 1987
  • 1999
  • 2008
  • for her outstanding literary work that has explored different genres with acuteness and irony, and because she cleverly assumes the classic tradition, defends women´s dignity.
  • 2000
  • 1966
  • 1985
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