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Margaret Atwood

b. 1939 · 20th century

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet and critic. Her novels include The Edible Woman, Cat's Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopia published in 1985, and The Blind Assassin, which won the Booker Prize in 2000; she won it again in 2019 for The Testaments. Her critical study Survival helped define the study of Canadian literature.

Margaret Atwood
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Margaret Atwood. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/margaret-atwood
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