AUTHOR | MARGARET ATWOOD
Margaret Atwood | Novelist, poet, businesswoman, environmental activist
Bio:
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC 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 technol
Born: 1939-11-18
Born in: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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All Quotes from the Author Margaret Atwood 103
“ Strange how we decorate pain.These ribbons, for inst...
“ Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my a...
“ The worst of it was that those people out there-the ...
“ Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you ca...
“ No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of wha...
“ The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
“ For me the experience of writing is really an experi...
“ If you really want to stay the same age you are now ...
“ I learned about religion the way most children learn...
“ with shrunken fingerswe ate our oranges and bread,sh...
“ Children were vehicles for passing things along. The...
“ But it seems she’d wanted children after all, becaus...
“ Falling in love, although it resulted in altered bod...
“ Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagin...
“ There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling ...
“ There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy,...