Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and in Toronto. She has lived in many other cities, including Boston, Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, Berlin, Edinburgh and London, and has travelled extensively. She lives in Toronto.
Margaret is the author of more than thirty internationally acclaimed works of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her books have been translated into numerous languages and she has been awarded many literary awards and honours from various countries.
Margaret is the author of more than thirty internationally acclaimed works of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her books have been translated into numerous languages and she has been awarded many literary awards and honours from various countries.
Her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, won the Booker Prize and the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Other books by Margaret Atwood shortlisted for the Booker Prize include The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace. Alias Grace won the Giller Award in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy. The Robber Bride won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Canadian Author's Association Novel of the Year. The Handmaid's Tale won the Governor General's Award.
Margaret has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has been awarded the Norwegian Order of Literary Merit, the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Foreign Honourary Member for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She has been nominated for the first ever Man Booker International Prize. Eighteen authors have been shortlisted from thirteen countries and ten are writers in translation.
Her latest novel, The Tent, will be published by Bloomsbury in March 2006.