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Margaret Atwood, one of the most renowned writers in the world, is born in Ottawa, a place in Ontario, Canada to Margaret Dorothy and Carl Edmund Atwood.
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Born in Ontario Canada in the year 1939, baby Margaret spent most of her childhood in the vast wilderness of Northern Ontario forests. While her father moved from place to place as an entomologist, Margaret spent her time reading stories, novels, poems while often trying her hand at writing short stories. Since the age of nine, Margaret decided she would commit to a life of writing.
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Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16.[10] In 1957, she 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 Bob Comedy Revue.[11] Her professors included Jay Macpherson and Northrop Frye. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honors) and minors in philosophy and French.
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Atwood's first book of poetry, Double Persephone, was published as a pamphlet by Hawskhead Press in 1961, winning the E.J. Pratt Medal.
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Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, was published in 1969. As a social satire of North American consumerism, many critics have often cited the novel as an early example of the feminist concerns found in many of Atwood's works.
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When “The Handmaid's Tale” was published, in 1985, some reviewers found Atwood's dystopia to be poetically rich but implausible. Three decades later, the book is most often described with reference to its timeliness.
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Though Atwood has had numerous nominations, the world-famous author won the Booker Prize twice - one in 2000 for her acclaimed book The Blind Assassins. The other time in 2019 for the much-awaited sequel to Handmaid's Tale - The Testaments.
