Biography of Margaret Atwood

Torments, visions and actions against

November 18, 1939 Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) on November 18, 1939, two months after the outbreak of the second world war. The second of three children, the father Carl Edmund Atwood was an entomologist, and his mother Margaret Dorothy Killian was a dietician and nutritionist. Because of his father's research the future writer spends many times of childhood in the great forests of Quebec. Do not attend school full-time until the age of 11 years. The young Margaret becomes ravenous reader of refined literature; among the favourite books include the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, the stories of Canadian origins, stories and poems. Margaret Atwood began writing very early, in just six years, perfecting his style-although unripe-over the next decade. After graduating at the Leaside High School in 1957 began his academic studies at Victoria University in Toronto. He graduated cum laude in 1961 with a thesis on the arts and on the English language and also in philosophy and French. In the fall of 1961, after winning some medals for the press with its first poems, she began studies at Harvard's Radcliffe College. Gets a master in 1962; pursuing his studies for two more years but does not complete the course, leaving unfinished the thesis "The English metaphysical romance" (1967). Starts to teach girande different universities. Wedding in 1968 Jim Polk, from whom she divorced five years later. In 1976 gave birth to her daughter Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson. Returned to Toronto in 1980, divides her time between her partner Graeme Gibson and the Green Party of Canada, of which even the companion part. Feminist activist, already in 1950 the Atwood had begun to deal with social issues such as the liberation of women and the change of gender roles, before they were released by the feminist movement. In addition to poet and writer, is remembered as a prolific literary criticism. He won an Arthur c. Clarke Award and a Prince of Asturias Award for literature, as well as a Booker Prize (finalist five times, only one winner), winning twice the Governor General's Award (Governor General's award, an award given by the Canadian Prime Minister). Many of his poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales, which were one of his particular interests from an early age. He has also written short stories published in the magazine "Playboy". Science fiction author, Margaret Atwood is considered a writer tormented and visionary: his works of the years ' 90 have seen a continuous and deep concern about Western civilization and politics, by the author considered the final stages of disintegration. From "The Edible Woman" and "Surfacing" up to "The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent collection "Wilderness Tips".
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