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Margaret Atwood

Novelist and poet · born 1939

Mapped Canadian literature in Survival and wrote the dystopia everyone now quotes.

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Life story

1. November 18, 1939 · Ottawa
   Born in Ottawa; spent childhood summers in the northern Quebec bush
2. 1966 · Toronto
   Won the Governor General's Award for The Circle Game at 27
3. 1972 · Toronto
   Published Survival, an argument about what Canadian writing is about
4. 1985 · Berlin
   Published The Handmaid's Tale, written while living in West Berlin
5. 2000 · London, England
   Won the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
6. 2019 · London, England
   Won the Booker again for The Testaments

Sources

• Wikipedia article: Margaret Atwood
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Canadian Encyclopedia