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Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic best known for the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.
Biography
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor. Since 1961 she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels and a number of small press editions. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.
Atwood’s work explores themes including gender and Canadian identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, genetic engineering and power politics, and many of her poems draw on myths and fairy tales. She is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada, is a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto, and is the inventor of the LongPen device for remote robotic writing of documents.
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Books by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments
The Testaments is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale set more than fifteen years after Offred's disappearance and told through the perspectives of three women—Daisy, Agnes and Lydia—who reveal life in and around Gilead and confront their pasts and choices.