Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood (2015)

Margaret Eleanor Atwood , CH , CC , O.Ont , FRSC (born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and poet . She writes novels, essays , short stories and poetry .

life and work

Margaret Atwood spent her early childhood in Ottawa, Quebec, and Ontario . In 1946, her father, an entomologist , accepted a position at the University of Toronto , where she lived until she graduated from Victoria College. After studying English language and literature at the University of Toronto and the Radcliffe College of Harvard University , which she graduated with a Masters in 1962 , she taught as a literary scholar at various universities from 1964 . She lived in the USA, the UK, France, Italy and Germany. Today she lives in Toronto . Since the divorce from her first husband in 1973, she lived with the ornithologist and writer Graeme Gibson (1934-2019) and had a daughter with him (* 1976).

Parallel to her teaching activity, she published her own literary works; at first she was mainly perceived as a poet, later also as a literary critic. 1969 her first novel The Edible Woman ( The Edible Woman ). She became famous mainly through the novel The Handmaid's Tale ( The Handmaid's Tale ), in 1985 with the General's Award for Fiction Governor Award and 1990 by Volker Schlöndorff as The Handmaid's Tale was filmed. Numerous short stories also contributed to Atwood's popularity. She is interested in Canadian history and literature. In 1981 she received the Canadian Molson Prize . In 1988 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2015 she was accepted as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages, including Persian , Japanese, and Turkish .

Margaret Atwood (2006)

Atwood often addresses the position of women in society in her novels, often also in the form of science fiction stories, but also deals with other current social problems and environmental issues. Among other things, she is publicly committed to measures against global warming . She takes the view that terms such as “global warming” and “climate change” play down the facts and instead uses the term climate crisis . She answered a journalist's question about climate change as follows:

“Don't say climate change! It's a climate crisis, an emergency! "

- Margaret Atwood, 2019

Atwood herself classified her works more in the area of ​​"speculative fiction". She explained: "For me, the Science Fiction label belongs to books about things we can't do yet, such as traveling through wormholes to other universes, while speculative fiction refers to works that deal with means that we already use, such as the genetic fingerprint and credit cards, and which are traded on planet earth. ”However, the terms are often not clearly differentiated and fantastic literature generally gives the opportunity to research topics in a way that is not possible in realistic literature.

For her novel The Blind Assassin ( The Blind Assassin ) Atwood won the 2000 Booker Prize and the 2001 Hammett Prize of the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers (IACW / NA) . In 2008 she was honored with the Prince of Asturias Prize in Spain for her life's work . In 2009 she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize of the City of Dortmund for her complete work.

In 2015 Margaret Atwood donated the previously unpublished manuscript Scribble Moon to the Future Library project by Scottish artist Katie Paterson . She is the first author whose texts, unpublished until 2114, are to be kept in the Deichmanske bibliotek in Oslo . Every year more texts by different authors are to be added, which will then all be published together after the waiting period has expired.

In 2016, Atwood received a National Book Critics Circle Award for Lifetime Achievement. On June 13, 2017, she was awarded the German Book Trade Peace Prize by the German Book Trade Association. The award certificate was presented to her on October 15, 2017 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt by Heinrich Riethmüller; Eva Menasse gave the laudation . On October 17, 2017, Atwood was awarded the Franz Kafka Literature Prize. The Witnesses , Atwood's sequel 15 years after the plot of The Maid's Report , won the Booker Prize in 2019 along with Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other . She also set Iris Murdoch's record with her sixth shortlist nomination for the British Literature Prize .

Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, President of the Canadian PEN Center (English-speaking section) from 1984 to 1986, and is currently one of the Vice Presidents of the P.EN. International . She and her husband are Honorary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International .

Awards

bibliography

Series and cycles

The Handmaid's Tale
MaddAddam
  • 1 Oryx and Crake (2003)
  • 2 The Year of the Flood (2009)
    • German: The year of the flood. Translated by Monika Schmalz. Berlin-Verlag # 884, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8270-0884-8 .
  • 3 MaddAddam (2013)
  • MaddAddam Trilogy (2014)

Novels

  • The Edible Woman (1969)
    • German: The edible woman. Translated by Werner Waldhoff. Claassen, 1985, ISBN 3-546-41087-4 .
  • Surfacing (1972)
    • German: The long dream. Translated by Reinhild Böhnke. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-546-41101-3 . Also called: current. With a comment by Gabriele Bock. Translated by Reinhild Böhnke. Reclams Universal Library # 788, Leipzig 1979, DNB 800131975 .
  • Lady Oracle (1976)
    • German: Lady Orakel. Translated by Werner Waldhoff. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-546-41103-X .
  • Bodily Harm (1984)
    • German: injuries. Translated by Werner Waldhoff. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-546-41104-8 .
  • Life Before Man (1987)
    • German: The impossibility of closeness. Translated by Werner Waldhoff. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-546-41102-1 .
  • Cat's Eye (1989)
  • The Robber Bride (1993)
    • English: The robber bride. Translated by Brigitte Walitzek. S. Fischer, 1994, ISBN 3-10-001108-2 .
  • Alias ​​Grace (1997)
    • German: Alias ​​Grace. Translated by Brigitte Walitzek. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8270-0012-2 .
  • The Blind Assassin (2000)
  • The Penelopiad (2005)
    • English: The Penelopiade. Translated by Malte Friedrich. Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0449-7 .
  • Moral Disorder (2006)
  • The Heart Goes Last (2015)
    • German: The heart comes last. Translated by Monika Baark. Berlin-Verlag # 1335, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8270-1335-4 .
  • Hag Seed (2016)

Collections

stories
  • The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
  • Procedures for Underground (1970)
  • Dancing Girls and Other Stories (1977)
    • German: Under glass. Translated by Helga Pfetsch. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-546-41085-8 .
  • Bluebeard's Egg (1983; also: Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories , 1987)
    • German: Der Salzgarten: Short stories. Translated by Charlotte Franke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-001105-8 .
  • Murder in the Dark (1983)
    • English: Die Poisonmischer: Horror trips and happy endings. Translated by Anna Kamp. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-546-41086-6 .
  • Interlunar (1984)
  • Surfacing / Life Before Man / The Handmaid's Tale (1990, collective edition)
  • Wilderness Tips (1991)
    • German: Tips for the wilderness: Short stories. Translated by Charlotte Franke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-10-001106-6 .
  • Good Bones (1992)
    • German: Good bones. Translated by Brigitte Walitzek. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-8270-0010-6 .
  • Bones and Murder (1995)
  • Power Politics (1996)
  • Good Bones and Simple Murders (2001)
  • The Tent (2006)
    • German: The tent. With drawings by the author. Translated by Malte Friedrich. Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0015-7 .
  • Moral Disorder (2008)
  • Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014; also: Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales , 2015)

German compilations:

  • Polarities: Selected stories. Reclams Universal Library # 9008, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-009008-3 .
Poems
  • Double Persephone (1961)
  • The Circle Game (1964)
  • Expeditions (1965)
  • Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
  • The Animals in That Country (1968)
  • The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
  • Procedures for Underground (1970)
  • Power Politics (1971)
  • You Are Happy (1974, includes Song of the Worms )
  • Selected Poems (1976)
  • Two-Headed Poems (1978)
  • True Stories (1981)
    • German: True stories: poems. Translated by Astrid Arz. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-546-41089-0 .
  • Love Songs of a Terminator (1983)
  • Snake Poems (1983)
  • Interlunar (1984)
  • Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 (1987)
  • Selected Poems 1966-1984 (1990)
  • Morning in the Burned House (1995)
    • English: A morning in the burned house: poems. Translated by Beatrice Howeg. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8270-0011-4 .
  • Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998)
  • The Door (2007)

German edition:

  • The Vixen: Poems 1965-1995. Translated by Ann Cotten, Jan Wagner, Ulrike Draesner, Monika Rinck, Kerstin Preiwuss, Dagmara Kraus, Elisabeth Plessen, Christian Filips and Alissa Walser. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-8270-1386-6 .

Short stories

1977
  • Dancing Girls (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Giving Birth (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • The Grave of the Famous Poet (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Hair Jewelery (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Lives of the Poets (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • The Man from Mars (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Polarities (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Rape Fantasies (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • The Resplendent Quetzal (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Training (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • A Travel Piece (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • Under Glass (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • The War in the Bathroom (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • When It Happens (1977, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
1982
  • Betty (1982, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
  • The Sin Eater (1982, in: Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories )
1983
  • Bluebeard's Egg (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Hurricane Hazel (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Loulou; or, The Domestic Life of the Language (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • The Salt Garden (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Scarlet Ibis (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Spring Song of the Frogs (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • The Sunrise (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Uglypuss (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Unearthing Suite (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg )
  • Autobiography (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Before the War (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Boyfriends (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • The Boys' Own Annual, 1911 (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Bread (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Everlasting (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Fainting (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Hand (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Happy Endings (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Him (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Hopeless (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Horror Comics (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Iconography (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Instructions for the Third Eye (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Liking Men (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Making Poison (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Murder in the Dark (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Mute (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • A Parable (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Raw Materials (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • She (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Simmering (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Strawberries (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • The Victory Burlesk (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
  • Worship (1983, in: Margaret Atwood: Murder in the Dark )
1987
  • In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain (1987, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories )
  • Freeforall (1987, in: Phyllis Gotlieb and Douglas Barbour (Eds.): Tesseracts 2 )
  • Walking on Water (1987, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories )
  • The Whirlpool Rapids (1987, in: Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories )
1990
  • Death by Landscape (1990, in: Alberto Manguel (Ed.): The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories )
  • Homelanding (1990, in: Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott (Eds.): Tesseracts 3 )
1991
  • The Bog Man (in: Playboy, January 1991 )
  • The Age of Lead (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Hack Wednesday (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Hairball (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Isis in Darkness (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • True Trash (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Uncles (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Weight (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
  • Wilderness Tips (1991, in: Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips )
1992
  • Shopping (1992, in: Lesley Choyce (Ed.): Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction )
  • Adventure Story (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Alien Territory (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • An Angel (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Bad News (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones ; also: The Bad News , 2018)
  • Cold-Blooded (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Dance of the Lepers (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Death Scenes (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Epaulettes (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • The Female Body (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Four Small Paragraphs (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Gertrude Talks Back (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Good Bones (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Hardball (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • In Love with Raymond Chandler (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • The Little Red Hen Tells All (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Making a Man (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Men at Sea (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • My Life as a Bat (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Poppies: Three Variations (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Stump Hunting (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Theology (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • There Was Once (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Third Handed (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • Unpopular Gals (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
  • We Want It All (1992, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones )
2000
  • The Elysium Lifestyle Mansions (2000, in: Philip Terry (Ed.): Ovid Metamorphosed )
2001
  • The Boy's Own Annual, 1911 (2001, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones and Simple Murders )
  • Simple Murders (2001, in: Margaret Atwood: Good Bones and Simple Murders )
2004
  • Lusus Naturae (2004, in: Michael Chabon (Ed.): McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories )
2006
  • The Animals Reject Their Names and Things Return to Their Origins (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: The animals give up their names and things return to their origins. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Bottle (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: bottle. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Bottle II (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Bottle II. In: Margaret Atwood: Das Zelt. 2006.
  • Bring Back Mom: An Invocation (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: Bring back mom: an incantation. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • But It Could Still (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: But it still could. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Chicken Little Goes Too Far (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: Chicken Little goes too far. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Clothing Dreams (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Kleidertäume. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Eating the Birds (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: birds eat. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Encouraging the Young (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Encourage the young. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Faster (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: faster. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Gateway (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Torweg. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Heritage House (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: The House of Historical Heritage. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Horatio's Version (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Horatios Version. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Impenetrable Forest (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: The impenetrable forest. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • It's Not Easy Being Half-Divine (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: Being a demigoddess is not that easy. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • King Log in Exile (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: King Tree Trunk in Exile. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Life Stories (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: life stories. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Nightingale (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Nachtigall. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • No More Photos (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: No more photos. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Orphan Stories (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Orphan Stories. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Our Cat Enters Heaven (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: Our cat goes to heaven. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Plots for Exotics (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Plots for Exotics. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Post-Colonial (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Postkolonial. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Resources of the Ikarians (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Resources of the Ikarianer. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Salome Was a Dancer (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • English: Salome was a dancer. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Something Has Happened (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Something happened. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Take Charge (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Take over. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • The Tent (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: The tent. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Three Novels I Won't Write Soon (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Three novels that I won't be writing anytime soon. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Thylacine Ragout (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Thylazine ragout. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Time Folds (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Time folds. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Tree Baby (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Baumbaby. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Voice (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: The voice. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Warlords (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Warlords. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
  • Winter's Tales (2006, in: Margaret Atwood: The Tent )
    • German: Wintermärchen. In: Margaret Atwood: The tent. 2006.
2008
  • The art of cooking and serving (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The Boys from the Laboratory (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The Entities (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The Headless Horseman (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The Labrador Fiasco (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • Monopoly (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • My Last Duchess (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The Other House (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
  • The White Horse (2008, in: Moral Disorder )
2009
  • The Creeping Hand (2009, in: Susan Rich (Ed.): Half-Minute Horrors )
2011
  • In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011; also: Time Capsule Found on a Dead Planet )
2012
  • Headlife (2012, in: Mort Castle and Sam Weller (Eds.): Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury )
  • Bearlift from Maddaddam, a Novel in Progress (2012, in: Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins )
2014
  • Alphinland (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • German: Alphinland. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • Dark Lady (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • German: Dark Lady. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • The Dead Hand Loves You (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • German: The dead hand loves you. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • The Freeze-Dried Groom (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • English: The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • German: Enchanting Zenia. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • Revenant (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • German: Revenant. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • Stone Mattress (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • English: The stone mattress. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
  • Torching the Dusties (2014, in: Margaret Atwood: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales )
    • English: Torch the old ones. In: The stone mattress. 2016.
2015
  • The Eye of Heaven (2015, in: Caro Soles and Nancy Kilpatrick (Eds.): NEvermore! )
2017
  • The Martians Claim Canada (in: Granta, 141, Autumn 2017 )

Non-fiction

  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
    • German: Survival: A Foray through Canadian Literature. Translated by Yvonne Eglinger. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-8270-1401-6 .
  • Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
  • Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
  • Through the One-Way Mirror (1986)
  • Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1996)
  • Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
  • Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004 (2004)
  • Curious Pursuits - Occasional Writing 1970-2005 (2005)
    • German: Out of curiosity and passion: collected essays. Translated by Christiane Buchner, Claudia Max and Ina Pfitzner. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8270-0666-0 .
  • Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005 (2005)
  • Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
    • German: Payback: Debt and the dark side of prosperity. Translated by Bettina Abarbanell. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0857-2 .
  • In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)
  • On Writers and Writing (2015)

Children's books

  • Up in the Tree (1978)
    • German: High up in the tree. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag (Fischer # 80001), Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-80001-3 .
  • Anna's Pet (1980, with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
  • For the Birds (1990, with Shelly Tanaka)
  • Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
    • English: Princess Prunella and the Purple Plum. Pictures by Julia Ginsbach. Translated by Edmund Jacoby. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-8067-4268-5 .
  • Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
  • Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
  • Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011)

literature

Monographs and Biographies
  • Nathalie Cooke: Margaret Atwood. A biography. ECW Press, Toronto 1998, ISBN 1-55022-308-9 .
  • Coral Ann Howells: Margaret Atwood. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1996, ISBN 0-333-51916-7 .
  • Anke Karrasch: The representation of Canada in the literary work of Margaret Atwood. 1995, ISBN 3-88476-164-1 .
  • Cynthia G. Kuhn: Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's fiction. Peter Lang, New York NY 2005, ISBN 978-0-8204-6764-1 .
  • Christina Ljungberg: To join, to fit, and to make: The creative craft of Margaret Atwood's fiction. Peter Lang, Bern et al. 1999, ISBN 3-906763-45-5 . (Dissertation University of Zurich 1998.)
  • Judith McCombs (Ed.): Critical essays on Margaret Atwood. Hall, Boston 1988, ISBN 0-8161-8840-8 .
  • Reingard M. Nischik (Ed.): Margaret Atwood: Works & Impact. Camden House, Rochester NY 2000, ISBN 1-57113-269-4 .
  • Michaela Röll: No place like home: tendencies towards centered and decentered conceptions of space in the novels John Irving and Margaret Atwood. Bonn 2002, DNB 968381383 (Dissertation University of Bonn 2002, full text online PDF, 749 kB).
  • Hilde Staels: Margaret Atwood's novels: A study of narrative discourse. 1995, ISBN 3-7720-2005-4 .
  • Susanne Vespermann: Margaret Atwood: A mythocritical analysis of their works. Wissner, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-928898-63-9 .
  • Kathryn Vanspanckeren (Ed.): Margaret Atwood, vision and forms. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1988, ISBN 0-8093-1408-8 .
Articles and essays
Lexicons

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  1. ↑ 1984 in West Berlin, according to Atwood's own information .
  2. ^ Grant Munroe: How Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson Built a Bird Sanctuary. The Walrus, August 18, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Rebecca Mead: Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia. The New Yorker , April 17, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ Honorary Members: Margaret Atwood. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Margaret Atwood: We Must Tackle Climate Change Together. . In: The Huffington Post , December 11, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  6. ^ Robert McCrum: Margaret Atwood interview: 'Go three days without water and you don't have any human rights. Why? Because you're dead ' . In: The Guardian , November 28, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  7. ↑ https://nzzas.nzz.ch/kultur/kultautorin-margaret-atwood-sagen-sie-nicht-klimawandel-es-ist-eine-klimakrise-ein-notfall-ld.1519260?reduced=true
  8. ^ Robert Potts: Light in the wilderness . In: The Guardian, April 26, 2003.
  9. ↑ “For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do, such as going through a wormhole in space to another universe; and speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand, such as DNA identification and credit cards, and that takes place on Planet Earth. "Quoted from: Margaret Atwood: " Aliens have taken the place of angels ". Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction . In: The Guardian, June 17, 2005.
  10. ↑ year of the award ceremony; the IACW / NA only records the year the book was published
  11. ↑ Future Library. Lyrikzeitung.com, June 3, 2015, accessed June 5, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Margaret Atwood receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade , buchmarkt.de, June 13, 2017, accessed on June 13, 2017.
  13. ↑ “Stories in the World” - Margaret Atwood's acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Peace Prize 2017. On the website for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, accessed on October 16, 2017.
  14. ↑ “The Precision of the Knife Thrower” - laudation by Eva Menasse. On the website for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, accessed on October 16, 2017.
  15. ^ Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share award. In: bbc.com. October 14, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Original article . With a drawing by the author: Flying Saucer , Canada, the "interlocutors" are Martians and a mushroom.
personal data
SURNAME Atwood, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atwood, Margaret Eleanor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Canada