Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents. She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc. (formerly Unotchit Inc.), a company that she started in 2004 to develop, produce and distribute the LongPen technology. She holds various patents related to the LongPen technologies.

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Famous quotes by Margaret Atwood:

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
"War is what happens when language fails"
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up."
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose"
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."
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Spirituality Today | How shared strength sustains hope

Florida Today 23 Mar 2025
March has been a month of nurturing hope — finding light in dark times, embracing daily practices that sustain us, and celebrating life’s milestones ... Canadian author Margaret Atwood beautifully captured this power.
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Doors that open for you have their own day

Shreveport Times 22 Mar 2025
Based on these questions, you can accurately assume that I have done this ... Central Complex, new address ... Questions? Email us at ... Website ... A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood (Non-Fiction; Book)Love to Learn.
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The Guardian view on climate fiction: no longer the stuff of sci-fi

The Observer 21 Mar 2025
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam dystopian trilogy, Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic The Road, Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and Richard Power’s Pulitzer-prize-winning The Overstory are just some ...
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ final season trailer promises a red-cloaked rebellion

NME 20 Mar 2025
The trailer for the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale has arrived online – watch it below. READ MORE ... “It depends what you define as happy” ... The synopsis reads ... CREDIT ... The dystopian drama is based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name ... .
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‘The Dream Hotel:’ a dystopian world in which people are detained for ...

The Lewiston Tribune 20 Mar 2025
In this novel that recalls the societal oppression and alienation in the works of Margaret Atwood and Franz Kafka, protagonist Sara Hussein is detained at the airport as she returns to Los Angeles from a conference in London ... .
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June declares "enough" in full-length trailer for The Handmaid's Tale's final season

AV Club 20 Mar 2025
Still, if you do want to return to Gilead (or what’s left of it) for some reason after the series finale, Hulu has more horrors in store with follow-up series The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name ... Club ... .
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The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Trailer: Elisabeth Moss Leads the Rebellion Against Gilead

Coming Soon 19 Mar 2025
(Photo Credit. Hulu) ... The series is slated to make its return on April 8, 2025 ... What happens in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 trailer? ... The Handmaid’s Tale is based on Margaret Atwood’s award-winning and best-selling novel of the same name ... .
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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

LA Daily News 19 Mar 2025
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended March 16 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound ... HARDCOVER FICTION. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Margaret Atwood ... .
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Business Insider 19 Mar 2025
When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission ... Amazon ... Read our full Audible review to learn more about the platform ... "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood Box Set, $35 $19.38"I'm That Girl.
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The week’s bestselling books, March 23

The Los Angeles Times 19 Mar 2025
1. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf. $32) The story of four women and their loves, longings and desires. 2. All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books ... 3. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday ... 5 ... The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Anchor.
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Review: ‘The Dream Hotel’ is a dystopian world in which people are detained for dreams

The Post and Courier 16 Mar 2025
In a novel that recalls the societal oppression and alienation in the works of Margaret Atwood and Franz Kafka, protagonist Sara Hussein is detained at the airport as she returns to Los Angeles from a conference in London ... .
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FASHION PULIS: Pretty face

Manila Bulletin 15 Mar 2025
Pretty Face (PF) might not be as sincere as she projects particularly in front of the camera ... Like typical wannabes, she wanted to have a career to help her family ... ‘The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.’― Margaret Atwood ... .
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An All-Female Society, Pushed to Extremes

The Atlantic 14 Mar 2025
[Margaret Atwood ... In the classic of the genre, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, most women trapped in a theocratic future America are forced to enslave or torture other women, but some of them actively enlist as foot soldiers in the effort ... .
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