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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Martians Claim Canada by Margaret Atwood The Martians Claim Canada by Margaret Atwood. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658d594279d784f8 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Biography of Margaret Atwood, Canadian Poet and Writer. Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer, known for her poetry, novels, and literary criticism, among other work. She has won several prestigious awards over the course of her career, including the Booker Prize. In addition to her writing work, she is an inventor who has worked on remote and robotic writing technology. Fast Facts: Margaret Atwood. Full Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood Known For: Canadian poet, lecturer, and novelist Born: November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Parents: Carl and Margaret Atwood (née Killam) Education: University of Toronto and Radcliffe College (Harvard University) Partners: Jim Polk (m. 1968-1973), Graeme Gibson (1973-2019) Child: Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson (b. 1976) Selected Works: The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), the MaddAddam trilogy (2003-2013) Selected Awards and Honors : Booker Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General's Award, Franz Kafka Prize, Companion of the Order of Canada, Guggenheim Fellowship, Nebula Award Notable Quote: “A word after a word after a word is power.” Early Life. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was the second and middle child of Carl Atwood, a forest entomologist, and Margaret Atwood, née Killam, a former dietician. Her father’s research meant that she grew up with something of an unconventional childhood, traveling frequently and spending a lot of time in rural regions. Even as a child, though, Atwood’s interests foreshadowed her career. Although she didn’t start attending regular schools until she was 12 years old, Atwood was a devoted reader from an early age. She read a wide variety of material, from more traditional literature to fairy tales and mysteries to comic books. As early as she was reading, she was writing too, drafting her first stories and children’s plays at the age of six. In 1957, she graduated from Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto. After high school, she attended the University of Toronto, where she published articles and poems in the school’s literary journal and participated in a theatrical troupe. In 1961, Atwood graduated with honors with a degree in English, as well as two minors in philosophy and French. Immediately following this, she won a fellowship and began grad school at Radcliffe College (the female sister school to Harvard), where she continued her literary studies. She got her master’s degree in 1962 and began her doctoral work with a dissertation called The English Metaphysical Romance , but she ultimately left her studies after two years without finishing her dissertation. Several years later, in 1968, Atwood married an American writer, Jim Polk. Their marriage produced no children, and they divorced only five years later, in 1973. Soon after the end of their marriage, however, she met Graeme Gibson, a fellow Canadian novelist. They never married, but in 1976 they had their only child, Eleanor Atwood Gibson, and they lived together until Gibson’s death in 2019. Early Poetry and Teaching Career (1961-1968) Double Persephone (1961) The Circle Game (1964) Expeditions (1965) Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966) The Animals in That Country (1968) In 1961, Atwood’s first book of poetry, Double Persephone , was published. The collection was well-received by the literary community, and it won the E.J. Pratt Medal, named after one of the foremost Canadian poets of the modern era. During this early part of her career, Atwood focused predominantly on her poetry work, as well as teaching. During the 1960s, Atwood continued working on her poetry while also working in academia. Over the course of the decade, she had teaching stints at three separate Canadian universities, joining the English departments. She began as a lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from 1964 to 1965. From there, she went on to Sir George Williams University in Montreal, where she was an instructor in English from 1967 to 1968. She ended the decade teaching from 1969 to 1970 at the University of Alberta. Atwood’s teaching career did not slow her creative output in the slightest. The years 1965 and 1966 were particularly prolific, as she published three collections of poetry with smaller presses: Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem ; Talismans for Children, and Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein , all published by the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Between two of her teaching positions, also in 1966, she published The Circle Game , her next poetry collection. It won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry that year. Her fifth collection, The Animals in That Country , arrived in 1968. Forays into Fiction (1969-1984) The Edible Woman (1969) The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) Procedures for Underground (1970) Power Politics (1971) Surfacing (1972) Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) You Are Happy (1974) Selected Poems (1976) Lady Oracle (1976) Dancing Girls (1977) Two-Headed Poems (1978) Life Before Man (1979) Bodily Harm (1981) True Stories (1981) Love Songs of a Terminator (1983) Snake Poems (1983) Murder in the Dark (1983) Bluebeard's Egg (1983) Interlunar (1984) For the first decade of her writing career, Atwood focused exclusively on publishing poetry and did so to great success. In 1969, however, she shifted gears, publishing her first novel, The Edible Woman . The satirical novel focuses on a young woman’s growing awareness in a heavily consumeristic, structured society, foreshadowing many of the themes that Atwood would be known for in the coming years and decades. By 1971, Atwood had moved to work in Toronto, spending the next couple of years teaching at universities there. She taught at York University for the 1971 to 1972 academic year, then became a writer in residence at the University of Toronto the following year, ending in the spring of 1973. Although she would continue to teach for several more years, these positions would be her last teaching jobs at Canadian universities. In the 1970s, Atwood published three major novels: Surfacing (1972), Lady Oracle (1976), and Life Before Man (1979). All three of these novels continued developing the themes that had first appeared in The Edible Woman , cementing Atwood as an author who wrote thoughtfully about themes of gender, identity, and sexual politics, as well as how these ideas of personal identity intersect with concepts of national identity, especially in her native Canada. It was during this time that Atwood went through some upheaval in her personal life. She divorced her husband in 1973 and soon met and fell in love with Gibson, who would become her lifelong partner. Their daughter was born the same year that Lady Oracle was published. Atwood continued writing outside of fiction during this period as well. Poetry, her first focus, was not pushed to the side at all. On the contrary, she was even more prolific in poetry than she was in fiction prose. Over the course of nine years between 1970 and 1978, she published six collections of poetry in total: The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Procedures for Underground (1970), Power Politics (1971), You Are Happy (1974), a collection of some of her previous poems titled Selected Poems 1965–1975 (1976), and Two-Headed Poems (1978). She also published a collection of short stories, Dancing Girls , in 1977; it won the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction Award. Her first non-fiction work, a survey of Canadian literature titled Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature , was published in 1972. Feminist Novels (1985-2002) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Through the One-Way Mirror (1986) Cat's Eye (1988) Wilderness Tips (1991) Good Bones (1992) The Robber Bride (1993) Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994) Morning in the Burned House (1995) Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995) Alias Grace (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002) Atwood's most famous work, The Handmaid’s Tale, was published in 1985 and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Governor General's Award; it also was a finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize, which recognizes the best English-language novel that reaches publication in the United Kingdom. The novel is a work of speculative fiction, set in a dystopian alternate history where the United States has become a theocracy called Gilead that forces fertile women into a subservient role as “handmaids” to bear children for the rest of society. The novel has endured as a modern classic, and in 2017, the streaming platform Hulu began airing a television adaptation. Her next novel, Cat’s Eye , was also well-received and highly praised, becoming a finalist for both the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize.

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