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Margaret Atwood

Award-Winning Writer, Author of The Handmaid's Tale | Écrivaine primée et auteure de La Servante écarlate

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays.  

 

Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the Maddaddam trilogy.  Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry in a decade, followed in 2022 with Burning Questions, a selection of essays from 2004 - 2021. Her next collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood was published in March 2023.

 

Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.  In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature.  She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright, and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

 

 

Margaret Atwood est l'auteure de plus de cinquante livres de fiction, de poésie et d'essais critiques. 

 

Ses romans incluent Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin et la trilogie Maddaddam. Son classique de 1985, The Handmaid's Tale, a été suivi en 2019 par une suite, The Testaments, qui a été classé numéro un mondial des ventes et a remporté le Booker Prize. En 2020, elle a publié Dearly, son premier recueil de poésie depuis dix ans, suivi en 2022 de Burning Questions, une sélection d'essais de 2004 à 2021. Son prochain recueil de nouvelles, Old Babes in the Wood, a été publié en mars 2023.

 

Atwood a remporté de nombreux prix, notamment le prix Arthur C. Clarke pour l'imagination au service de la société, le prix Franz Kafka, le prix de la paix du commerce du livre allemand, le PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award et le Dayton Literary Peace Prize. En 2019, elle a été nommée membre de l'Ordre des Compagnons d'honneur pour ses services rendus à la littérature. Elle a également travaillé comme dessinatrice, illustratrice, librettiste, dramaturge et marionnettiste. Elle vit à Toronto, au Canada.

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