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Margaret Atwood

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Biography

Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Birth Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, poet, cultural activist

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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9,683 words, approx. 32 pages
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...
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Biography of Margaret Atwood
6,447 words, approx. 22 pages
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...
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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5,060 words, approx. 17 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Atwood, Margaret Summary
24,897 words, approx. 83 pages
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...
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Margaret Atwood - (1939 -) Summary
16,015 words, approx. 53 pages
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...
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Margaret Atwood Information
2,279 words, approx. 8 pages
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...


News and Journals
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Elizabeth Hay wins $40,000 book prize
11/8/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
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Gordimer gets French Legion of Honor
4/2/2007: 438 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Karen F. Stein
8,657 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Stein offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Atwood's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Frank Davey
8,582 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Davey discusses recurring themes in Atwood's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Russell Brown
7,583 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Brown explores the recurring images in Atwood's work, focusing on how they function in her fiction and poetry.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Humor, Power and Victimization in "Rape Fantasies."
2,522 words, approx. 8 pages
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.


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