Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity,religion and myth, the power of language,climate change, andpower politics.[3] Many of her poems are inspired bymyths andfairy tales which interested her from a very early age.[4]
Atwood was born on November 18, 1939,[11] inOttawa, Ontario, Canada, the second of three children[12] of Carl Edmund Atwood, anentomologist,[13] and Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist fromWoodville, Nova Scotia.[14] Because of her father's research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of northernQuebec,[15] and travelling back and forth between Ottawa,Sault Ste. Marie andToronto.
She did not attend school full-time until she was 12 years old. She became a voracious reader of literature,Dell pocketbook mysteries,Grimms' Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, andcomic books. She attendedLeaside High School inLeaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957.[16] Atwood began writing plays and poems at the age of 6.[17]
As a child, she also participated in the Brownie program ofGirl Guides of Canada. Atwood has written about her experiences in Girl Guides in several of her publications.[18]
Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16.[19] In 1957, she began studying atVictoria College in the University of Toronto, where she published poems and articles inActa Victoriana, the college literary journal, and participated in the sophomore theatrical tradition ofThe Bob Revue.[20] Her professors includedJay Macpherson andNorthrop Frye. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French.[16]: 54
In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies atRadcliffe College ofHarvard University, with aWoodrow Wilson fellowship.[21] She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued doctoral studies for two years, but did not finish her dissertation,The English Metaphysical Romance.[22]
Atwood has a sister, Ruth Atwood, born in 1951, and a brother who is two years older, Harold Leslie Atwood.[23] She has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivorMary Webster might have been anancestor: "On Monday, my grandmother would say Mary was her ancestor, and on Wednesday she would say she wasn't… So take your pick."[24] Webster is the subject of Atwood'spoem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novelThe Handmaid's Tale (1985).[25]
Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but they divorced in 1973.[26][27] She formed a relationship with fellow novelistGraeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm nearAlliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976.[26]
The family returned to Toronto in 1980.[28] Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering fromdementia.[29] She wrote about Gibson in the poemDearly and in an accompanying essay on grief and poetry published inThe Guardian in 2020.[30] Atwood said about Gibson "He wasn't an egotist, so he wasn't threatened by anything I was doing. He said to our daughter towards the end of his life, 'Your mum would still have been a writer if she hadn't met me, but she wouldn't have had as much fun'".[31]
Although she is an accomplished writer, Atwood says that she is "a terrible speller" who writes both on a computer and by hand.[32]
Atwood's first book of poetry,Double Persephone, was published as a pamphlet byJohn Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press in 1961, and won theE. J. Pratt Medal.[34] While continuing to write, Atwood was a lecturer in English at theUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, from 1964 to 1965, Instructor in English at theSir George Williams University inMontreal from 1967 to 1968, and taught at theUniversity of Alberta in Edmonton from 1969 to 1970.[35] In 1966,The Circle Game was published, winning theGovernor General's Award.[36] This collection was followed by three other small press collections of poetry:Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1965);Talismans for Children, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1965); andSpeeches for Doctor Frankenstein, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1966); as well asThe Animals in That Country (1968). 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.[37]
Atwood taught atYork University in Toronto from 1971 to 1972 and was a writer in residence at theUniversity of Toronto during the 1972/1973 academic year.[35]: xxix–xxx Atwood published six collections of poetry over the course of the decade:The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970),Procedures for Underground (1970),Power Politics (1971),You Are Happy (1974),Selected Poems 1965–1975 (1976), andTwo-Headed Poems (1978). Atwood also published three novels during this time:Surfacing (1972);Lady Oracle (1976); andLife Before Man (1979), which was a finalist for theGovernor General's Award.[36]Surfacing,Lady Oracle, andLife Before Man, likeThe Edible Woman, explore identity and social constructions of gender as they relate to topics such as nationhood and sexual politics.[38] In particular,Surfacing, along with her first non-fiction monograph,Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972), helped establish Atwood as an important and emerging voice in Canadian literature.[39] In 1977 Atwood published her first short story collection,Dancing Girls, which was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.[35]
By 1976, there was such interest in Atwood, her works, and her life thatMaclean's declared her to be "Canada's most gossiped-about writer."[40]
While reviewers and critics have been tempted to read autobiographical elements of Atwood's life in her work, particularlyCat's Eye,[47][35]: xxx in general Atwood resists the desire of critics to read too closely for an author's life in their writing.[24] FilmmakerMichael Rubbo'sMargaret Atwood: Once in August (1984)[48] details the filmmaker's frustration in uncovering autobiographical evidence and inspiration in Atwood's works.[49]
During the 1980s, Atwood continued to teach, serving as the MFA Honorary Chair at theUniversity of Alabama inTuscaloosa, 1985; the Berg Professor of English,New York University, 1986; Writer-in-Residence,Macquarie University, Australia, 1987; and Writer-in-Residence,Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1989.[35]: xxix–xxx Regarding her stints with teaching, she has noted, "Success for me meant no longer having to teach at university."[50]
Atwood's reputation as a writer continued to grow with the publication of the novelsThe Robber Bride (1993), finalist for the1994 Governor General's Award[36] and shortlisted for theJames Tiptree Jr. Award,[51] andAlias Grace (1996), winner of the 1996Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996Booker Prize,[52] finalist for the1996 Governor General's Award,[36] and shortlisted for the 1997Orange Prize for Fiction.[53] Although vastly different in context and form, both novels use female characters to question good and evil and morality through their portrayal of female villains. As Atwood noted aboutThe Robber Bride, "I'm not making a case for evil behavior, but unless you have some women characters portrayed as evil characters, you're not playing with a full range."[54]The Robber Bride takes place in contemporary Toronto, whileAlias Grace is a work of historical fiction detailing the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery.
Atwood had previously written the 1974CBC made-for-TV filmThe Servant Girl, about the life ofGrace Marks, the young servant who, along with James McDermott, was convicted of the crime.[55] Atwood continued her poetry contributions by publishingSnake Woman in 1999 for the Women's Literature journal Kalliope.[56]
Atwood followed this success with the publication ofOryx and Crake in 2003, the first novel in a series that also includesThe Year of the Flood (2009) andMaddAddam (2013), which would collectively come to be known as the MaddAddam Trilogy. The apocalyptic vision in the MaddAddam Trilogy engages themes of genetic modification, pharmaceutical and corporate control, and man-made disaster.[61] As a work of speculative fiction, Atwood notes of the technology inOryx and Crake, "I think, for the first time in human history, we see where we might go. We can see far enough into the future to know that we can't go on the way we've been going forever without inventing, possibly, a lot of new and different things."[62] She later cautions in the acknowledgements toMaddAddam, "AlthoughMaddAddam is a work of fiction, it does not include any technologies or bio-beings that do not already exist, are not under construction or are not possible in theory."[63]
In 2005, Atwood published the novellaThe Penelopiad as part of theCanongate Myth Series. The story is a retelling ofThe Odyssey from the perspective ofPenelope and a chorus of the twelve maids murdered at the end of the original tale.The Penelopiad was given a theatrical production in 2007.[64]
On November 28, 2018, Atwood announced that she would publishThe Testaments, a sequel toThe Handmaid's Tale, in September 2019.[66] The novel features three female narrators and takes place fifteen years after the character Offred's final scene inThe Handmaid's Tale. The book was the joint winner of the2019 Booker Prize.[67]
In 2016, Atwood began writing the superhero comic book seriesAngel Catbird, with co-creator and illustrator Johnnie Christmas. The series protagonist, scientist Strig Feleedus, is victim of an accidental mutation that leaves him with the body parts and powers of both a cat and a bird.[71] As with her other works, Atwood notes of the series, "The kind of speculative fiction about the future that I write is always based on things that are in process right now. So it's not that I imagine them, it's that I notice that people are working on them and I take it a few steps further down the road. So it doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes out of real life."[72]
With her novelScribbler Moon, Atwood is the first contributor to theFuture Library project.[73] The work, completed in 2015, was ceremonially handed over to the project on May 27 of the same year.[74] The book will be held by the project until its eventual publishing in 2114. She thinks that readers will probably need a paleo-anthropologist to translate some parts of her story.[75] In an interview with theGuardian newspaper, Atwood said, "There's something magical about it. It's likeSleeping Beauty. The texts are going to slumber for 100 years and then they'll wake up, come to life again. It's a fairytale length of time. She slept for 100 years."[74]
In early 2004, while on the paperback tour in Denver for her novelOryx and Crake, Atwood conceived the concept of a remote robotic writing technology, what would later be known as theLongPen, that would enable a person to remotely write in ink anywhere in the world via tablet PC and the Internet, thus allowing her to conduct her book tours without being physically present. She quickly founded a company, Unotchit Inc., to develop, produce and distribute this technology. By 2011, the company shifted its market focus into business and legal transactions and was producing a range of products, for a variety of remote writing applications, based on the LongPen technologies. In 2013, the company renamed itself to Syngrafii Inc. In 2021, it is cloud-based and offerselectronic signature technology. As of May 2021, Atwood is still a director of Syngrafii Inc. and holder of various patents related to the LongPen and related technology.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
In November 2020 Atwood publishedDearly, a collection of poems exploring absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, and gifts and renewals.[76] The central poem,Dearly, was also published inThe Guardian newspaper along with an essay exploring the passing of time, grief, and how a poem belongs to the reader; this is accompanied by an audio recording of Atwood reading the poem on the newspaper's website.[30]
Atwood's contributions to the theorizing of Canadian identity have garnered attention both in Canada and internationally. Her principal work of literary criticism,Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, is considered somewhat outdated, but remains a standard introduction toCanadian literature inCanadian studies programs internationally.[77][78][79] Writer and academicJoseph Pivato has criticised the continued reprinting ofSurvival by Anansi Press as a view-narrowing disservice to students of Canadian literature.[80]
InSurvival, Atwood postulates that Canadian literature, and by extension Canadian identity, is characterized by the symbol of survival.[81] This symbol is expressed in the omnipresent use of "victim positions" in Canadian literature. These positions represent a scale of self-consciousness and self-actualization for the victim in the "victor/victim" relationship.[82] The "victor" in these scenarios may be other humans, nature, the wilderness or other external and internal factors which oppress the victim.[82] Atwood'sSurvival bears the influence ofNorthrop Frye's theory ofgarrison mentality; Atwood uses Frye's concept of Canada's desire to wall itself off from outside influence as a critical tool to analyze Canadian literature.[83] According to her theories in works such asSurvival and her exploration of similar themes in her fiction, Atwood considers Canadian literature as the expression of Canadian identity. According to this literature, Canadian identity has been defined by a fear of nature, by settler history, and by unquestioned adherence to the community.[84] In an interview with theScottish critic Bill Findlay in 1979, Atwood discussed the relationship of Canadian writers and writing to the 'Imperial Cultures' of America and Britain.[85]
Among her contributions to Canadian literature, Atwood is a founding trustee of theGriffin Poetry Prize,[88] as well as a founder of theWriters' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.[89]
Atwood's work has been of interest to feminist literary critics, despite Atwood's unwillingness at times to apply the label 'feminist' to her works.[90] Starting with the publication of her first novel,The Edible Woman, Atwood asserted, "I don't consider it feminism; I just consider it social realism."[91]
Despite her rejection of the label at times, critics have analyzed the sexual politics, use of myth and fairytale, and gendered relationships in Atwood's work through the lens of feminism.[92] Before the 1985 publication ofThe Handmaid's Tale, Atwood gave an interview to feminist theorist Elizabeth Meese in which she defined feminism as a "belief in the rights of women" and averred that "if practical, hardline, anti-male feminists took over and became the government, I would resist them."[93] In 2017, she clarified her discomfort with the labelfeminism by stating, "I always want to know what people mean by that word [feminism]. Some people mean it quite negatively, other people mean it very positively, some people mean it in a broad sense, other people mean it in a more specific sense. Therefore, in order to answer the question, you have to ask the person what they mean."[94] Speaking toThe Guardian, she said "For instance, some feminists have historically been against lipstick and lettingtransgender womeninto women's washrooms. Those are not positions I have agreed with",[95] a position she repeated toThe Irish Times.[96][97] In an interview with Penguin Books, Atwood stated that the driving question throughout her writing ofThe Handmaid's Tale was "If you were going to shove women back into the home and deprive them of all of these gains that they thought they had made, how would you do it?", but related this question tototalitarianism, not feminism.[98]
In January 2018, Atwood penned theop-ed "Am I a Bad Feminist?" forThe Globe and Mail.[99] The piece was in response to social media backlash related to Atwood's signature on a 2016 petition calling for an independent investigation into the firing ofSteven Galloway, a former University of British Columbia professor accused of sexual harassment and assault by a student.[100] While feminist critics denounced Atwood for her support of Galloway, Atwood asserted that her signature was in support of due process in the legal system. She has been criticized for her comments surrounding the #MeToo movement, particularly that it is a "symptom of a broken legal system".[101]
In 2018, following a partnership betweenHulu's adaptation ofThe Handmaid's Tale and women's rights organisationEquality Now, Atwood was honored at their 2018 Make Equality Reality Gala.[102] In her acceptance speech she said:
I am, of course, not a real activist—I'm simply a writer without a job who is frequently asked to speak about subjects that would get people with jobs fired if they themselves spoke. You, however, at Equality Now are real activists. I hope people will give Equality Now lots and lots of money, today, so they can write equal laws, enact equal laws and see that equal laws are implemented. That way, in time, all girls may be able to grow up believing that there are no avenues that are closed to them simply because they are girls.[102]
In 2019, Atwood partnered with Equality Now for the release ofThe Testaments.[103]
Atwood has resisted the suggestion thatThe Handmaid's Tale andOryx and Crake are science fiction, suggesting toThe Guardian in 2003 that they arespeculative fiction: "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen."[26] She told theBook of the Month Club: "Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper. It contains no intergalactic space travel, no teleportation, noMartians."[104] OnBBC Breakfast, she explained that science fiction, as opposed to what she herself wrote, was "talking squids in outer space." The latter phrase particularly rankledadvocates of science fiction and frequently recurs when her writing is discussed.[104]
In 2005, Atwood said that she did at times writesocial science fiction and thatThe Handmaid's Tale andOryx 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: "For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do ... Speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth." She said that science fiction narratives give a writer the ability to explore themes in ways that realistic fiction cannot.[105]
Atwood further clarified her definitions of terms in 2011, in a discussion with science fiction authorUrsula K. Le Guin: "What Le Guin means by 'science fiction' is what I mean by 'speculative fiction', and what she means by 'fantasy' would include what I mean by 'science fiction'."[106] She added that genre borders were increasingly fluid, and that all forms of "SF" might be placed under a common umbrella.[106]
In 2024 the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature passed a law[107] mandating the removal of books deemed objectionable from all Utah public schools. On August 2, 2024, the Utah State School Board released its first list of objectionable books. One book on this list was penned by Atwood (Oryx and Crake).[108][109]
Atwood repeatedly makes observations about the relationships of humans to animals in her works.[110] A large portion of thedystopia Atwood creates inOryx and Crake concerns the genetic modification and alteration of animals and humans, resulting in hybrids such as pigoons, rakunks, wolvogs and Crakers, raising questions on the limits and ethics of science and technology, and on what it means to be human.[111]
InSurfacing, one character remarks about eating animals: "The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people ... And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life." Some characters in her books link sexual oppression to meat-eating and consequently give up meat-eating. InThe Edible Woman, Atwood's character Marian identifies with hunted animals and cries after hearing her fiancé's experience of hunting and eviscerating a rabbit. Marian stops eating meat but then later returns to it.[112]
InCat's Eye, the narrator recognizes the similarity between a turkey and a baby. She looks at "the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby. It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird." In Atwood'sSurfacing, a deadheron represents purposeless killing and prompts thoughts about other senseless deaths.[112]
Atwood is apescetarian. In a 2009 interview she stated that "I shouldn't use the term vegetarian because I'm allowing myselfgastropods,crustaceans and the occasional fish. Nothing with fur or feathers though".[113]
Atwood has indicated in an interview that she considers herself aRed Tory in what she sees as the historical sense of the term, saying that "The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things."[114] She has also stated onTwitter that she is amonarchist.[115] In the2008 federal election, she attended a rally for theBloc Québécois, aQuebec pro-independence party, because of her support for their position on the arts; she said she would vote for the party if she lived in Quebec, and that the choice was between the Bloc and theConservatives.[116] In an editorial inThe Globe and Mail, she urged Canadians to vote for any party other than the Conservatives to prevent them gaining a majority.[117]
A member of the political action group The Handmaid Coalition
Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she andGraeme Gibson were the joint honorary presidents of the Rare Bird Club withinBirdLife International. Atwood celebrated her 70th birthday at a gala dinner atLaurentian University inSudbury, Ontario. She stated that she had chosen to attend the event because the city has been home to one of Canada's most ambitious environmental reclamation programs: "When people ask if there's hope (for the environment), I say, if Sudbury can do it, so can you. Having been a symbol of desolation, it's become a symbol of hope."[118] Atwood has been chair of theWriters' Union of Canada and helped to found the Canadian English-speaking chapter ofPEN International, a group originally started to free politically imprisoned writers.[119] She held the position ofPEN Canada president in the mid 1980s[120] and was the 2017 recipient of thePEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award.[121] Despite calls for a boycott byGazan students, Atwood visitedIsrael and accepted the $1,000,000Dan David Prize along with Indian authorAmitav Ghosh atTel Aviv University in May 2010. Atwood commented that "we don't do cultural boycotts."[122]
In herdystopian novelThe Handmaid's Tale (1985), all the developments take place near Boston in the United States, now known as Gilead, while Canada is portrayed as the only hope for an escape. To some this reflects her status of being "in the vanguard of Canadian anti-Americanism of the 1960s and 1970s".[123] Critics have seen the mistreated Handmaid as Canada.[124] During the debate in 1987 over afree-trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal and wrote an essay opposing it.[125] She said that the2016 United States presidential election led to an increase in sales ofThe Handmaid's Tale.[126]Amazon reported thatThe Handmaid's Tale was the most-read book of 2017.[127]The Handmaid's Tale sequel,The Testaments, also saw a rapid increase of sales immediately following the2024 United States presidential election, withThe Handmaid's Tale reaching third in Amazon's bestseller's list. Following this election, Atwood wrote onX, "Despair is not an option. It helps no one."[128][129]
In 2018, Atwood signed an appeal of the American PEN Center in defense of Ukrainian directorOleg Sentsov, a political prisoner in Russia.[131]
In July 2020, Atwood was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."[132]
On February 24, 2022, Atwood briefly covered thewar in Ukraine at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and published a link to the state aid fund onTwitter.[133][134] She continues to publish information about the war in Ukraine on the social network.[135]
In 2024, Atwood worked with Climate Words, a nonprofit that is dedicated to bridging gaps in climate communication and breaking down barriers to meaningful dialogue about climate justice, on the meaning behind the term circumpollutionarity. Atwood refers to circumpollutionarity as the pollution of circumpolar lands and waters.[136]
Atwood's novelSurfacing (1972) was adapted into a1981 film of the same name written byBernard Gordon and directed byClaude Jutra.[137] It received poor reviews; one reviewer wrote that it made "little attempt to find cinematic equivalents for the admittedly difficult subjective and poetic dimensions of the novel."[138]
Atwood's 2008 Massey Lectures were adapted into the documentaryPayback (2012), by directorJennifer Baichwal.[147] Commentary by Atwood and others such as economistRaj Patel, ecologistWilliam E. Rees, and religious scholarKaren Armstrong, are woven into various stories that explore the concepts of debt and payback, including an Armenian blood feud, agricultural working conditions, and theDeepwater Horizon oil spill.[148]
In the Wake of the Flood (released in October 2010), a documentary film by the Canadian directorRon Mann, followed Atwood on the unusual book tour for her novelThe Year of the Flood (2009). During this innovative book tour, Atwood created a theatrical version of her novel, with performers borrowed from the local areas she was visiting. The documentary is described as "a fly-on-the-wallfilm vérité".[153]
Atwood's children's bookWandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011) was adapted into the children's television seriesThe Wide World of Wandering Wenda, broadcast onCBC beginning in the spring of 2017.[154] Aimed at early readers, the animated series follows Wenda and her friends as they navigate different adventures using words, sounds, and language.[154]
DirectorDarren Aronofsky had been slated to direct an adaptation of theMaddAddam trilogy forHBO, but it was revealed in October 2016 that HBO had dropped the plan from its schedule. In January 2018, it was announced thatParamount Television andAnonymous Content had bought the rights to the trilogy and would be producing it without Aronofsky.[155]
"Pauline", a chamber opera in two acts, with composer Tobin Stokes for City Opera Vancouver (2014)
Audio recordings
The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood (1977)
Margaret Atwood Reads "Unearthing Suite" (1985)
Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems (2005)
Margaret Atwood as herself inZombies, Run, as a surviving radio operator in themes.
Filmography
She is credited as herself in all 26 episodes of theBreakthrough Entertainment's children's showThe Wide World of Wandering Wenda in which she wears funny hats to match the various themes (2017)
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