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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won nu…
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2026· 12 entries
“People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.”
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“Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.”
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“But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.”
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“We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.”
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“we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”
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“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
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“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
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“He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.”
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Yahoo: Margaret Atwood’s cameo in ‘The Testaments’ explained
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Atwood had a cameo in season 1 episode 10 of
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To mixed reviews, Atwood published Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
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2025· 13 entries
The Guardian: Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’
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The Guardian: ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more
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The Guardian: If holding a grudge is wrong, why does it feel so right? Just ask Margaret Atwood | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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WSLS 10: Margaret Atwood reflects on literature, feminism and luck
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The Guardian: The day Margaret Atwood saved me from a mortifying interview | Letters
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The Guardian: Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side
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The Guardian: From (finally) being given the Booker prize to the day her partner died: an exclusive extract from Margaret Atwood’s new memoir
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The Guardian: ‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
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The Guardian: Margaret Atwood releases short story critiquing book bans in Canada
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The Guardian: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – a puzzle waiting to be decoded
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The Guardian: Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked!
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The Guardian: Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’
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Atwood was among 200 cultural figures signing a letter calling for the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti
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2024· 3 entries
The Utah State School Board released its first list of objectionable books
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Atwood had a cameo in a season 17 episode of Murdoch Mysteries as Lorin Quinelle, an amateur ornithologist
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The Republican-dominated Utah Legislature passed a law mandating the removal of books deemed objectionable from all Utah public schools
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2023· 2 entries
NPR: Margaret Atwood ponders aging, fantasy and George Orwell in 'Old Babes in the Wood'
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Today: Margaret Atwood said she'd never write a memoir. Why she changed her mind
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2022· 2 entries
People: Margaret Atwood Uses a Flamethrower on 'Unburnable' Edition of 'The Handmaid's Tale' to Protest Book Banning
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Atwood briefly covered the war in Ukraine at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and published a link to the state aid fund on Twitter
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2021· 1 entry
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Judge Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, is a member of a Christian group that inspired Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.”” Mostly False.
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2019· 5 entries
Awarded Companion of Honour (2019).
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Awarded Booker Prize for The Testaments (2019).
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Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering from dementia.
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Atwood partnered with Equality Now for the release of The Testaments
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A graphic novel (ISBN 9780224101936) based on the book and with the same title was published by Renée Nault
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2018· 7 entries
Atwood announced that she would publish The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, in September 2019
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Won Lorne Pierce Medal (2018).
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And it was announced on May 2, 2018, that Hulu had renewed the series for a third season
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The Hollywood Reporter: Margaret Atwood Faces Backlash Over “Bad Feminist” Op-ed and #MeToo Comments
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“s Tale, in September 2019. The novel features three female narrators and takes place fifteen years after the character Offred”
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Atwood signed an appeal of the American PEN Center in defense of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a political prisoner in Russia
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Following a partnership between Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and women's rights organisation Equality Now, Atwood was honored at their 2018 Make Equality Reality Gala
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2017· 9 entries
And the full series was released on Netflix on November 3, 2017
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Awarded Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel for Angel Catbird (2017).
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Awarded Raymond Chandler Award (2017).
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Awarded St. Louis Literary Award (2017).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2017).
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Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2017).
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Atwood had a cameo appearance in the pilot episode of The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series) as an Aunt figure who slaps Offred
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“Despair is not an option. It helps no one.”
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Clarified her discomfort with the label feminism by stating, "I always want to know what people mean by that word [feminism]
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2016· 5 entries
Won Golden Wreath (2016).
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Awarded Tähtivaeltaja Award for MaddAddam (2016).
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Awarded PEN Pinter Prize (2016).
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Atwood published the novel Hag-Seed, a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, as part of Penguin Random House's Hogarth Shakespeare Series
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Atwood began writing the superhero comic book series Angel Catbird, with co-creator and illustrator Johnnie Christmas
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2015· 1 entry
Was ceremonially handed over to the project on May 27 of the same year
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2013· 1 entry
The company renamed itself to Syngrafii Inc
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
In a discussion with science fiction author Ursula K
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Dan David Prize (2010).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2010).
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Giller Prize for The Year of the Flood (2009).
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Awarded Nelly Sachs Prize (2009).
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“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2008).
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Atwood published Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a collection of five lectures delivered as part of the Massey Lectures from October 12 to November 1, 2008
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2005· 3 entries
“s Tale and Oryx and Crake could be designated as such. She clarified her meaning on the difference between speculative and science fiction, admitting that others used the terms interchangeably:”
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Atwood published the novella The Penelopiad as part of the Canongate Myth Series
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Atwood said that she did at times write social science fiction and that The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake could be designated as such
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2004).
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2003· 3 entries
The first novel in a series that also includes The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), which would collectively come to be known as the MaddAddam Trilogy
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That they are speculative fiction: "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen
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Six of Atwood's short stories were adapted by Shaftesbury Films for the anthology television series The Atwood Stories
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Hammett Prize for The Blind Assassin (2001).
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Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2001).
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Atwood was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame
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2000· 4 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin (2000).
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Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002
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And was staged in 2003 at London's English National Opera and the Minnesota Opera
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Atwood published her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, to critical acclaim, winning both the Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize in 2000
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Helmerich Award (1999).
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For the Women's Literature journal Kalliope
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Mondello Prize (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Giller Prize for Alias Grace (1996).
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1990· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Ontario (1990).
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Won Harvard Centennial Medal (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988).
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1987).
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Awarded Arthur C. Clarke Award for The Handmaid's Tale (1987).
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Over a free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal and wrote an essay opposing it
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Los Angeles Times Book Prize for The Handmaid's Tale (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Governor General's Award for English-language fiction for The Handmaid's Tale (1985).
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (1981).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1981).
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Awarded Molson Prize (1981).
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1979· 22 entries
“Opis: wspomnienie słów Ciotki Lidii wypowiedzianych do przyszłych Podręcznych.”
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Atwood discussed the relationship of Canadian writers and writing to the 'Imperial Cultures' of America and Britain
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“The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth.”
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“Ale kto pamięta ból, kiedy już minął? Zostaje po nim jedynie cień, i to nie w świadomości, w ciele. Ból odciska piętno, ale zbyt głęboko, by je dostrzec. Co z oczu, to z serca.”
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“Ceni się tylko to, mówi [Ciotka Lidia], co jest rzadkie i trudne do osiągnięcia. – A my chcemy, żebyście były cenione, dziewczęta. – Nie szczędzi pauz, które smakuje. – Myślcie o sobie jako o perłach. – A my, siedząc przed nią w rzędach, słuchamy tych jej morałów. To ona nas określa, musimy znosić jej przymiotniki.Myślę o perłach. Perły to zastygła ślina małżów.”
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“Chcę odzyskać, tak jak było. Ale co z tego, że chcę.”
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“Chciałabym wierzyć, że to, co opowiadam, to tylko taka historia. Potrzebna mi jest ta wiara. Muszę w to uwierzyć. Ci, którzy wierzą, że te historie to tylko takie opowiastki, są w lepszej sytuacji. Jeśli to, co mówię, to tylko opowiastka, to znaczy, że zakończenie zależy ode mnie. Że w ogóle istnieje jakieś zakończenie, po którym jest życie. Że mogę podjąć tam, gdzie przerwałam.”
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“Chwila zdrady jest najgorsza, chwila, w której ponad wszelką wątpliwość wiesz, że zostałeś zdradzony, że jakaś druga ludzka istota życzy ci aż tak źle.To jakby człowiek siedział w windzie, którą ktoś odciął na górze. Spadasz, spadasz i nie wiesz, kiedy uderzysz o ziemię.”
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“Dociekliwy umysł zawsze ma się czym zająć.”
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“(…) doznania miłosne można określić tylko w przybliżeniu.”
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“Film o przeszłości to nie to samo co przeszłość.”
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“Hasła, rzeczy, o których nie należy mówić, ludzie ukrywający swą tożsamość, ciemne powiązania: nie wydaje mi się, aby taka miała być naprawdę postać świata. Ale to moja własna iluzja, kac pozostały po tej wersji rzeczywistości, którą poznałam w poprzednim czasie.”
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“Opis: prelekcja prof. Jamesa Darcy’ego Pieixoto.”
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“I to jest to, na co można liczyć: że zawsze będą sojusze, takie czy inne.”
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“Ich młodość jest wzruszająca, ale wiem, że nie należy się dać temu zwieść. Ci młodzi [strażnicy] są często niebezpieczni – najbardziej fanatyczni, najbardziej skorzy do strzelania. Jeszcze nie wiedzą, co to istnienie w czasie. Trzeba z nimi ostrożnie.”
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“Ja się tym zajmę – zaofiarował się Łukasz. Ale ponieważ powiedział „tym”, zamiast „nią”, wiedziałam, że postanowił ją zabić. To jest właśnie to, co musisz zrobić, zanim zabijesz. Stworzyć jakieś „to”; tam gdzie nie było do tej pory nic. Najpierw stwarzasz coś takiego w swojej głowie, a potem nadajesz temu realną postać.”
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“Opis: refleksja Fredy oparta na wspomnieniu wypowiedzi Komendanta.”
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“Jest jakaś siła w takim szeptaniu świństw o przedstawicielach władzy. W tym zakazanym akcie niesubordynacji jest coś rozkosznego, a zarazem podniecającego. Co przypomina czary. Jakby się z nich wypuszczało powietrze, sprowadzało do wspólnego z nami mianownika, do poziomu, na którym można sobie z nimi poradzić.”
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“Jeśli się ma za dużo – mówiła Ciotka Lidia – to człowiek przywiązuje się zbytnio do świata materialnego i zapomina o wartościach duchowych. Trzeba kultywować ubóstwo ducha. Błogosławieni cisi. Ale o dziedziczeniu ziemi tym razem nie było.”
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“Kiedy sobie w czasach młodości wyobrażałam wiek podeszły, myślałam, że człowiek, mając niewiele czasu, bardziej sobie różne rzeczy ceni. Zapomniałam o spadku energii.”
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“Kwiaty to genitalia roślin. Gdzieś to wyczytałam, kiedyś.”
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“Ludziom najtrudniej się przyznać, że ich życie nie ma żadnego znaczenia. Żadnego celu. Żadnej treści.”
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Toronto Book Awards for Lady Oracle (1977).
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Atwood published her first short story collection, Dancing Girls, which was the winner of the St
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1976· 1 entry
She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976.
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1967· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University (1965–1967).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama for The Circle Game (1966).
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The Circle Game was published, winning the Governor General's Award
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1963· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University (1962–1963).
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1962· 2 entries
Studied at Radcliffe College, Master of Arts (1961–1962).
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And pursued doctoral studies for two years, but did not finish her dissertation, The English Metaphysical Romance
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1961· 2 entries
With a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French
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Atwood began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship
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1957· 1 entry
Began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, where she published poems and articles in Acta Victoriana, the college literary journal, and participated in the sophomore theatrical tradition of The
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1951· 1 entry
And a brother who is two years older, Harold Leslie Atwood
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1939· 2 entries
Born 1939-11-18.
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In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the second of three children of Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist, and Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia
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