One of her newer poems is possibly also her most successful one: “Morning in the Burned House”, which came out in 1995 and won the Trillium Award. Some of her early poems were “The Animals in that Country”, published in 1968, “You are Happy”, published in 1975 and “Two-Headed Poems” in 1978.
She was also involved in the feminist movement in the early 1980s, which influenced some of her work, especially “The Handmaid’s Tale”.ĭuring her time as a writer and lecturer, she never stopped writing poems, which were very successful, too. It was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and turned into a movie in 1990. Clarke Award for Science-Fiction and the Governor-General’s Award. Her novel “ The Handmaid’s Tale” won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Arthur C. Her books have been translated into many different languages and have been published in countries all around the world. Her first novel, “The Edible Woman” was published in 1969, followed by “Surfacing” in 1972, “Lady Oracle” in 1976, “Dancing Girls and Other Stories” in 1977, “Life before Man” in 1979, “Bodily Harm” in 1982 and finally “The Handmaid’s Tale”, first published in 1986.īy that time, Margaret Atwood had managed to become a writer with international success. In 1961 her first collection of poems named “Double Persephone” came out.īetween 19 she was a lecturer of English literature at several Canadian universities, for example at the University of Toronto from 1972 till 1973.ĭuring that period of time, she continued writing. She loved writing since she was a young girl and so she began to publish her poems when she was 19 years of age. She went to Victoria College, then attended the University of Toronto and Harvard University. The Handmaid’s Tale: A Science Fiction Novel written by a WomanĪbbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten
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