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.

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Textual Production Ali Smith
With her background in academia and her work reviewing fiction for The Scotsman and The Guardian, AS has produced an impressive amount of literary criticism. She has written critical introductions for reissues of work...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The other opening title was Margaret Atwood 's The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.
Textual Production Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society , literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford , and professional and...
Textual Production Alice Munro
The title of one of these stories, Carried Away, was used for a selection of her work made by Munro herself and published in 2006 with an introduction by Margaret Atwood .
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 Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
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...
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
UKLG 's volume of trenchant, funny, lyrical essays or blog posts, No Time to Spare. Thinking about What Matters, covered, as Margaret Atwood wrote, everything from cats to the nature of belief, to the...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde ) who is...
Travel Liz Lochhead
LL went to Glendon College in Toronto, on the first Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange.
The Canadian writer who spent that year in Scotland was the novelist Graeme Gibson , Margaret Atwood 's partner.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16.
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