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
“ A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy,...
“ ...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell ...
“ Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long ...
“ In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, whi...
“ Good writing takes place at intersections, at what y...
“ There were places you didn't want to walk, precautio...
“ The answers you get from literature depend on the qu...
“ They are boiling with the pressured energy of explos...
“ Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is...
“ As a species we're doomed by hope, then?You could ca...
“ How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So st...
“ Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent ripos...
“ Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that wom...
“ I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which ...
“ Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would...
“ This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s ...