The Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has been delighting readers with her works since 1961, and her manuscript, The Chronicler of the Moon, will only be released in 2114, as she took part in the Library of the Future project. The project resembles a time capsule: the works are stored in a public library in Oslo and will not be printed until 2114.
Biography
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 and received her name in honor of her mother. The parents of the future writer were far from literature - the father studied insects, and his mother was a nutritionist. Due to her father's research, she spent most of her childhood in the wilderness of northern Quebec. As a child, Margaret dreamed of becoming an artist. And, although she ultimately chose another creative profession, she designed many covers for her poetry collections. In an interview, Atwood mentioned that she might return to painting when she retired. She graduated from school and university in Toronto, received a bachelor's degree in English. Atwood also studied at Radcliffe College at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Happy in marriage with her second husband, writer Graham Gibson, with whom they have a daughter.
Creation
Her writing experience is more than half a century, Margaret wrote poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction.
The first publications relate to collections of poems. In a 1990 interview with Paris Review, she admitted that some of her poems led to novels. The most striking works of the writer include the following: “The History of Slaves”, “Edible Woman”, “The Handmaid's Tale”, “Nicknamed Grace”, “Blind Killer”.
Her works are influenced by her feminist and environmental views. In particular, literary critics often called Atwood a feminist writer, although she herself denied this. In her novels, she also tries to pay attention to environmental issues. Her anti-utopian trilogy of Mad Addam, for example, shows a world in which most of humanity was destroyed by natural disaster. Margaret's love of nature is also confirmed by her position as Honorary President of the Society of Rare Birds and her active work in the Green Society.
The most famous literary work
"The Handmaid's Tale" was published in 1985, in the 21st century received a new wave of fame. The events of the novel are presented to readers as a female autobiography in the near future of a new anti-utopian society. This novel has become one of the examples of the world's best dystopias. Critics classify it as science fiction, while the writer herself does not like to use this term. Incarnated many times on the stage and on the screen, the novel received a new reading in the 2016 American series of the same name.
