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Margaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, one of the world's best-selling authors, and a pioneer of Canadian women's writing. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended school at Victoria College in Toronto. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist Graeme Gibson; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. Her writing often focuses on feminist issues and concerns, which she often examines through multiple genres such as science fiction, Southern Ontario Gothic, comedy, and the ghost story. Some critics say her first novel, The Edible Woman, which examined female dissatisfaction, predates issues of second-wave feminism. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in Canada and Canadian fiction, a theme that shows up both in the settings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her non-fiction and edited work. She has also been associated with Canadian nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually published poetry. Often her poems are epigrams. Techniques she has drawn on include internal rhyme, extended metaphor, as well as alliteration or assonance that is split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo effect. She ranks as a key figure in Canadian poetry, especially as one of Toronto's new voices in the 1960s, along with Gwendolyn MacEwen, Dennis Lee and Michael Ondaatje. Perhaps most readers know Atwood for her tale of a future dystopia in the science fiction novel The Handmaid's Tale (made into a movie), for her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Assassin, as well as for many other stories. In 1973 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted in 1981 to Companion. Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition: The Handmaid's Tale, championed by former Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 2002 and Oryx and Crake, championed by Toronto City Councillor Olivia Chow in 2005. In addition, the French translation of The Handmaid's Tale, La servante carlate, was included in the French version of the competition, Le combat des livres, in 2004. In November 2004 in Toronto, Unotchit Inc., her company, demonstrated a "remote book-signing device" at an invitation-only presentation in Toronto. The device, also called the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author to remotely sign a book as well as interact via video and audio. She has said in interviews that the device will be available by 2006. Bibliography
See also External links Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Atwood, Margaret
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