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Biographie de Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Quebec, Ontario and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout her thirty years of writing, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. She is the author of more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and is perhaps best known for her novels, which includes The Edible Woman (1969), Surfacing (1972), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993) and Alias Grace (1996). Her newest novel, The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction. Margaret Atwood has been acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal lives and problems of universal concern. Her work has been published in more than thirty-five languages, including Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.