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Introducing Margaret Atwood 


Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian writer. She was born on November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is famous for sharing bleak, dystopian vision of a world and feminist perspectives throughout her novels. In her poems, she often celebrates the natural world and condemns materialism. She won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin in 2000 and again recently in 2019 she won the same prize for her novel The Testaments. Atwood has been also conferred the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement and Franz Kafka Award. 

 Introducing A Few Works By Atwood: 


 A) The Edible Woman: The novel deals with the life Marian, a woman who loses interest in foods. This novel is considered as a 'proto-feminist' novel.   
                                                   
                                                    
B) Surfacing: The novel shares the story of an unnamed female narrator who goes to an island searching for her father.There she discovers some mysterious drawings that unearths some suppressed and painful memories.

C) The Handmaid's Tale: A dystopian novel. The novel is set in a future state, Republic of Gilead and describes the story of a woman, Offred. This famous work of Atwood has been adapted as a TV series co-written by the author herself. 
                                                   
D) Alia's Grace: The novel narrates the 1843 murder of Thomas Kimmear and Nancy Montegomary in a fictional layout. 

E) Double Persephone: A poetry collection. 

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(This Weekly Post has been contributed by Rajarshi Nath, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Furkating College.)  

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