Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC FRSL (born 18 November 1939) is a Canadian author and literary critic.
She is VERY Prolific, having published 12 novels and 15 poetry books, on top of short story anthologies and other works. She is one of the most acclaimed authors in recent history: she has either won or been a finalist for Canada's Governor General's Award (one of Canada's highest prizes for an author) seven times. She has also earned the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, LA Time Fiction Award and Prince of Asturias Award, and has been nominated or won the Booker Prize five times.
Her works include:
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964)
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- Surfacing (1972)
- You Are Happy (1974)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Selected Poems (1976)
- Two-Headed Poems (1978)
- Life Before Man (1979)
- True Stories (1981)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- Love Songs of a Terminator (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Interlunar (1984)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize)
- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart (1995)
- Alias Grace (1996)
- Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998)
- The Blind Assassin (2000) (winner of the Booker Prize)
- Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1) (2003)
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Door (2007)
- The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, #2) (2009)
- MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy, #3) (2013)
- Stone Mattress (2014)
- The Heart Goes Last (2015)
- Angel Catbird (2016)
- Wandering Wenda (2017; based on her 2011 children's book Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery)
- Hag-Seed (2016)
- The Testaments (Sequel to the The Handmaid's Tale) (2019)
