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Line 1: {{~~trope~~creator}} {{outdated}} A Canadian author. VERY Prolific, having published 12 novels and 15 poetry books, on top of short story anthologies and other works. She is one of the most acclaimed authors in recent history: She has either won or been a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Award (One of Canada's highest prize for an author) seven times. She has also earned the [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] Award for best Science Fiction, LA Time Fiction Award and Prince of Asturias Award, and has been nominated or won the Booker Prize five times. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJg_Q31SkiI Also not a bad goalie.] [[File:Atwood123.jpg\|frame\|Margaret Atwood at the 2011 Writers' Trust Gala]] '''Margaret Atwood''' (1939- ) is a ''very'' prolific Canadian author, having published 12 novels and 15 poetry books, on top of short story anthologies and other works. She is one of the most acclaimed authors in recent history: She won the [[Giller Prize]] (Canada's top award for literary fiction) in 1996, and has either won or been a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Award (one of Canada's highest awards for an author) seven times. She has also earned the [[Arthur C. Clarke]] Award for best Science Fiction, LA Time Fiction Award and Prince of Asturias Award, and has been nominated or won the [[Booker Prize]] five times. Under the name Bart Gerrard, she was a cartoonist in the 1970s. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJg_Q31SkiI Also, she's not a bad goalie.] ~~Her works include:~~ Oh, and she invented the [[w:LongPen\|LongPen]]. * Double Persephone (1961) * The Circle Game (1964) {{bibliography}} * Expeditions (1965) ''(Copied from [[w:Margaret Atwood\|her Wikipedia page]])'' * Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966) == The MaddAddam Trilogy == * The Animals in That Country (1968) # ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' (2003, finalist for the 2003 [[Booker Prize]] and the 2003 [[Governor General's Awards\|Governor General's Award]] and shortlisted for the 2004 [[Orange Prize for Fiction]].) * Edible Woman (1969) # ''[[The Year of the Flood]]'' (2009, Oryx and Crake companion, longlisted for the 2011 [[International Dublin Literary Award]]) * The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) # ''[[MaddAddam]]'' (2013) (Third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy, Goodreads Choice for Best Science Fiction 2013) * Procedures for Underground (1970) * Power Politics (1971) == Novels == * Surfacing (1972) * ~~You~~''[[The ~~Are~~Edible ~~Happy~~Woman]]'' (~~1974~~1969) * ''[[Surfacing (novel)\|Surfacing]]'' (1972) * Lady Oracle (1976) * ~~Selected~~''[[Lady ~~Poems~~Oracle]]'' (1976) * ''[[Life Before Man]]'' (1979, finalist for the 1979 Governor General's Award) * Two-Headed Poems (1978) * ''[[Bodily Harm (novel)\|Bodily Harm]]'' (1981) * Life Before Man (1979) * ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (1985, winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 [[Booker Prize]]) * True Stories (1981) * ''[[Cat's Eye (novel)\|Cat's Eye]]'' (1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize) * Bodily Harm (1981) * ''[[The Robber Bride]]'' (1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]]) * Love Songs of a Terminator (1983) * ''[[Alias Grace]]'' (1996, winner of the 1996 [[Giller Prize]], finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction) * Bluebeard's Egg (1983) * ''[[The Blind Assassin]]'' (2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.) * Interlunar (1984) * ''[[The ~~Handmaids Tale\|The Handmaid's Tale~~Penelopiad]]'' (~~1985~~2005, ~~winner~~nominated offor the ~~1987~~2006 ~~Arthur~~Mythopoeic ~~C. Clarke~~Fantasy Award ~~and~~for ~~1985~~Adult ~~Governor~~Literature ~~General's~~and ~~Award, finalist~~longlisted for the ~~1986~~2007 ~~Booker~~International ~~Prize~~Dublin Literary Award) * ''Scribbler Moon'' (2014; written in 2014 as part of the [[Future Library project]]) * Cat's Eye (1988) * ''[[The ~~Robber~~Heart ~~Bride~~Goes Last]]'' (~~1993~~2015) * ''[[Hag-Seed]]'' (2016) * Morning in the Burned House, [[Mc Clelland]] & Stewart (1995) * Alias Grace (1996) == Short fiction collections == * Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998) * ''[[Dancing Girls (book)\|Dancing Girls]]'' (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction) * The Blind Assassin (2000) * ''[[~~Oryx~~Murder ~~and~~in ~~Crake~~the Dark]]'' (~~2003~~1983) * ''[[Bluebeard's Egg]]'' (1983) * The Penelopiad (2005) * ''[[Wilderness Tips (book)\|Wilderness Tips]]'' (1991, finalist for the 1991 Governor General's Award) * The Door (2007) * ''[[Good Bones]]'' (1992) * The Year of the Flood (September 2009) (Follow-up of Oryx and Crake) * ''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' (1994) * ''[[The Labrador Fiasco]]'' (1996) * ''[[The Tent (Margaret Atwood book)\|The Tent]]'' (2006) * ''[[Moral Disorder]]'' (2006) * ''[[Stone Mattress]]'' (2014) == Poetry collections == * ''[[Double Persephone]]'' (1961) * ''[[The Circle Game (collection)\|The Circle Game]]'' (1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award) * ''[[Expeditions, by Margaret Atwood\|Expeditions]]'' (1965) * ''[[Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein]]'' (1966) * ''[[The Animals in That Country]]'' (1968) * ''[[The Journals of Susanna Moodie]]'' (1970) * ''[[Procedures for Underground]]'' (1970) * ''[[Power Politics (collection)\|Power Politics]]'' (1971) * ''You Are Happy'' (1974) Includes the poem ''[[Song of the Worms]]'' * ''Selected Poems'' (1976) * ''[[Two-Headed Poems]]'' (1978) * ''[[True Stories (collection)\|True Stories]]'' (1981) * ''Love Songs of a Terminator'' (1983) * ''Snake Poems'' (1983) * ''[[Interlunar]]'' (1984) * ''Selected Poems 1966–1984'' (Canada) * ''Selected Poems II: 1976–1986'' (US) * ''[[Morning in the Burned House]]'', McClelland & Stewart (1995) * ''Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995'' (UK,1998) ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903075301/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16789 "You Begin."] (1978) – as recited by Margaret Atwood; included in all three most recent editions of her "Selected Poems" as listed above (US, CA, UK) * ''[[The Door (Margaret Atwood poetry)\|The Door]]'' (2007) == E-books == * ''I'm Starved For You: Positron, Episode One'' (2012) * ''Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two'' (2012) * ''Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three'' (2013) * ''The Heart Goes Last: Positron, Episode Four'' (2013) == Anthologies edited == * ''The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse'' (1982) * ''The Canlit Foodbook'' (1987) * ''The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English'' (1988) * ''The Best American Short Stories 1989'' (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel) * ''The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English'' (1995) == Children's books == * ''Up in the Tree'' (1978) * ''Anna's Pet'' (1980) (with [[Joyce Barkhouse\|Joyce C. Barkhouse]]) * ''For the Birds'' (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka) * ''Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut'' (1995) * ''Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes'' (2003) * ''Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda'' (2006) * ''Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery'' (2011) == Non-fiction == * ''[[Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature]]'' (1972) * ''Days of the Rebels 1815–1840'' (1977) * ''Second Words: Selected Critical Prose'' (1982) * ''Through the One-Way Mirror'' (1986) * ''Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature'' (1995) * ''[[Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing]]'' (2002) * ''Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004'' (2004) * ''[[Writing with Intent]]: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005'' (2005) * ''[[Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]]'' (2008) * ''In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination'' (2011) == Drawings == * ''Kanadian Kultchur Komix'' featuring "Survivalwoman" in ''[[This Magazine]]'' under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975–1980 * Others appear on her website. == Graphic novels == * ''Angel Catbird'', with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain (2016) == Television scripts == * ''The Servant Girl'' (1974) * ''Snowbird'' (1981) * ''Heaven on Earth'' (1987) == Libretti == * ''The Trumpets of Summer'' (1964) (with composer [[John Beckwith (composer)\|John Beckwith]]) * ''Frankenstein Monster Song'' (2004, with rock band [[One Ring Zero]]) * "Pauline", a chamber opera in two acts, with composer Tobin Stokes for City Opera Vancouver (2014) == Audio recordings == * ''The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood'' (1977) * ''Margaret Atwood Reads "Unearthing Suite"'' (1985) * ''Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems'' (2005) * Margaret Atwood as herself in ''[[Zombies, Run]]'', as a surviving radio operator in themes. {{reflist}} {{Giller Prize}} {{Arthur C. Clarke Award}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Speculative Fiction Creator Index]] [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:~~Margaret~~Canada's ~~Atwood~~Walk of Fame inductee]] [[Category:Canadian Authors]]