One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has...

The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the...

Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's...

Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, poet, and short story writer, Atwood has emerged as a major figure in contemporary feminist writing. Through female protagonists and narrators who often journey from victimization to self-actualization, Atwood...

Margaret Atwood - (1939 -) (Full name Margaret Eleanor Atwood) Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, and author of children's books. Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, poet, and short story writer, Atwood is widely...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she is a winner of the Booker Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor...

Elizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so...

Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...

Wednesday 20thSunny D! Sunshine has given our city a tongue bath, transforming the gray, sodden streets into a blossomy (and pollen-infused) Brigadoon … but we say: Stand up for your right to be depressed anyway and lie on the couch watching celebrity poker! If you...

In the following essay, Stein offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Atwood's short fiction.

In the following essay, Davey discusses recurring themes in Atwood's short fiction.

In the following essay, Brown explores the recurring images in Atwood's work, focusing on how they function in her fiction and poetry.

Examines Humor, power and victimization in Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies." Provides biographical detail on the author. Discusses some of her earlier works and details common themes.

In Margaret Atwood's short story "Rape Fantasies", several women casually discuss their personal rape fantasies. The main idea being portrayed through out the story is that women battle with feeling powerful and powerless. She also discusses the distinction between fantasy and fear in her story.

In her short story "Happy Endings," Margaret Atwood uses creative, blunt anthologized plots to express the existence and the actuality of others that develops ideas of escape, but that there is no escape and that death is inevitable.