Interview: “People confuse personal relations with legal structures.” An Interview with Margaret Atwood

Abstract

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Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec, Ontario, and Toronto. After living and working in many different cities and travelling extensively she now lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. Her posts include Lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor of English at York University, Toronto, M.F.A. Honorary Chair at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Berg Chair at New York University, and Writer-In-Residence at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Atwood is the critically acclaimed author of more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays and the editor of various anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen different languages. Prizes for her fiction include the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Canadian Authors' Association Novel of the Year (both for The Robber Bride), the Giller Award for Alias Grace, and many more. Other books by Margaret Atwood shortlisted for the Booker Prize include
The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake. She has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has been awarded the Norwegian Order of Literary Merit, the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a Foreign Honorary Member for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.