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
“ ...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell ...
“ A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy,...
“ Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is...
“ Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. Th...
“ They are boiling with the pressured energy of explos...
“ Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely ...
“ The answers you get from literature depend on the qu...
“ In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, whi...
“ There were places you didn't want to walk, precautio...
“ Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent ripos...
“ I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which ...
“ Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would...
“ How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So st...
“ Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they we...
“ How could I be sleeping with this particular man.......
“ Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that wom...