Margaret Atwood

Standard Name: Atwood, Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Nickname: Peggy Atwood
Indexed Name: M. E. Atwood
Well before the end of the twentieth century MA had become one of Canada's leading writers in multiple genres. She now writes for a global audience who read her more than forty novels , poetry,short stories, criticism, lectures, editing of anthologies, and experiments with new, mixed, and digital genres.
Black-and-white photo of Margaret Atwood standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone, gesturing with her hands, 5 April 1973.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Naomi Alderman
In spring 2011 NA took a course in running which provided the inspiration for the smartphone game Zombies, Run!
Chatfield, Tom. “Escape the marauding zombies . . . and burn calories at the same time”. theguardian.com.
With Margaret Atwood , her mentor on the Rolex scheme for partnering younger artists with distinguished...
Dedications Naomi Alderman
The early version had a protagonist, Christine, who survived the revision only to die in the opening pages of the final, 110,000-word version,
“Foyles”. Naomi Alderman. About the Author.
leaving a daughter who is one of four central figures. Alderman dedicated...
Literary responses Naomi Alderman
Reviewer Sarah Ditum concluded: The slide from tweaked normality to plausible horror is realised here as perfectly as in the best of John Wyndham or Margaret Atwood in a version of the future [that] detonates...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA writes frequently in the Guardian. For instance, in an article on the televising of Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid's Tale she provides a sketch of utopian and dystopian fiction by women, from Margaret Cavendish
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
Not a game, but another engagement with zombies, is the horror novel The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, written in collaboration (a chapter each alternately) with Margaret Atwood and issued in instalments on the digital...
Reception Anita Brookner
This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson , centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist...
Publishing A. S. Byatt
She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge scholar, Kathleen Coburn , and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the...
death Angela Carter
On 23 February an obituary by Margaret Atwood appeared in the London Observer, and one by Carter's friend and publisher Carmen Callil in the Sunday Times.
Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House.
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Textual Production Angela Carter
In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, pp. 69-77.
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Her two...
Textual Production Gillian Clarke
GC has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed...
Intertextuality and Influence Rosalind Coward
With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex...
Textual Features Nawal El Saadawi
The Imam rules and tyrannizes over an imaginary island. The rebellious heroine, Bint Allah (which means daughter of God), appears to have been illegitimately fathered by the Imam, and while it seems appropriate to...
Occupation Eva Figes
EF had a long stint as co-editor of this series, which includes works on Margaret Atwood , Jane Austen , Elizabeth Bowen , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Frances Burney , Willa Cather , Colette ,...
Reception Margaret Forster
In a National Women's Register poll of members to determine the best woman writer of the twentieth century, MF came third with twenty-one votes, just behind Margaret Atwood with twenty-five and just ahead of Enid Blyton
Anthologization Maggie Gee
Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson 's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood and David Attenborough ), Living...

Timeline

December 1953: Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy,...

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December 1953

Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy, published in Chicago. The first issue featured a previously unpublished nude photo of Marilyn Monroe .

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

January 1996: Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint...

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January 1996

Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown . Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.

10 October 2006: Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for...

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10 October 2006

Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.

26 September 2009: The Guardian newspaper carried a number of...

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26 September 2009

The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.

Texts

Atwood, Margaret. “’Little Chappies With Breasts’”. New York Times Book Review, p. 11.
Atwood, Margaret. “A Nobel for our times”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
Atwood, Margaret. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works. Editors Chung, Kathy and Sherrill Grace, Juvenilia Press, 1997.
Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. McClelland and Stewart, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret, and Johnnie Christmas. Angel Catbird. Dark Horse Books, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. Bluebeard’s Egg. McClelland and Stewart, 1983.
Atwood, Margaret. Bodily Harm. McClelland and Stewart, 1981.
Atwood, Margaret. Bottle. Hay Festival Press, 2004, http://PS 8551 T97 B75 2004 Special Collections.
Atwood, Margaret. Cat’s Eye. McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
Atwood, Margaret. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
Atwood, Margaret. Double Persephone. Toronto, ON, 1961.
Guppy, Shusha et al. “Edna O’Brien”. Women Writers at Work: The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">Paris Review</span> Interviews, edited by George Plimpton and George Plimpton, Viking, 1989, pp. 337-59.
McMaster, Juliet, and Margaret Atwood. “Foreword”. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works, edited by Kathy Chung et al., Juvenilia Press, 1997, p. vi.
Atwood, Margaret, and Christian Ward. “Freeforall”. The Guardian, pp. 59-63.
Atwood, Margaret. Good Bones. Coach House Press, 1992.
Atwood, Margaret. “Guardian book club”. The Guardian, p. Review 7.
Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. Knopf Canada, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. “Here comes a chopper . . ”. The Guardian, p. Review 6.
Atwood, Margaret. “How I fell for Twitter”. The Guardian, p. 35.
Atwood, Margaret. I’m Starved for You. Byliner Fiction, 2012.
Atwood, Margaret. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. Signal, 2011.
Atwood, Margaret. Interlunar. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Grace, Sherrill, and Margaret Atwood. “Introduction”. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works, edited by Kathy Chung et al., Juvenilia Press, 1997, p. vii - xiv.
Carrière, Marie, and Margaret Atwood. “Introduction”. The Burgess Shale, University of Alberta Press; CLC, 2017, p. ix - xii.
Atwood, Margaret. Lady Oracle. McClelland and Stewart, 1976.