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Margaret Atwood

1939 - Today

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Atwood is the 498th most popular writer (down from 467th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Canada (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Writer.

Margaret Atwood is most famous for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Atwood ranks 498 out of 7,302. Before her are Alfred Döblin, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Arnold Bennett, Lysias, Traudl Junge, and Marie-Antoine Carême. After her are Natsume Sōseki, Władysław Reymont, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Saul Bellow, Lesya Ukrainka, and Paul Claudel.

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Among people born in 1939, Margaret Atwood ranks 19. Before her are Amanda Lear, Harvey Keitel, Giovanni Falcone, Ada Yonath, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and Reuven Rivlin. After her are Aníbal Cavaco Silva, James Fox, Ralph Lauren, Karel Gott, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Jackie Stewart.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Margaret Atwood ranks 21 out of 1,622. Before her are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Michael J. Fox (1961), Erving Goffman (1922), Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), and Glenn Gould (1932). After her are Saul Bellow (1915), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), and Pierre Trudeau (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Margaret Atwood ranks 2. Before her are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874). After her are Saul Bellow (1915), Alice Munro (1931), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Robin Sharma (1965), Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), and Harold Russell (1914).

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