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Participating Canadian Authors

Margaret
Atwood
Linwood
Barclay
Joy
Fielding
Sylvia
Fraser
Judy
Fong-Bates
Vincent
Lam
Robert
Rotenberg
Susan
Swan
Jeremy
Tankard

Margaret Atwood margaretatwood.ca

Photograph by George Whiteside

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than fifty volumes of poetry, children's literature, fiction, and non-fiction. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages. She currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Major Works

  • The Handmaid's Tale (1983)
  • Cat's Eye (1989)
  • The Robber Bride (1994)
  • The Blind Assassin (2000)
  • Oryx and Crake, (2003)

Recent Awards

  • Ontario College of Art and
    Design, 2010
  • Crystal Award, World
    Economic Forum, Davos-
    Klosters Switzerland, 2010
  • Nelly Sachs, Dortmund,
    Germany, 2010
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