Margaret Atwood

Atwood was born on November 18, 1939,{{cite web|url=http://margaretatwood.ca/biography|title=Biography|author=|website=margaretatwood.ca|access-date=November 17, 2024}} in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the second of three children{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10246937/Margaret-Atwood-interview.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10246937/Margaret-Atwood-interview.html|archive-date=January 11, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Margaret Atwood: interview|first=Hermione|last=Hoby|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=August 18, 2013|access-date=October 27, 2020}}{{cbignore}} of Carl Edmund Atwood, an entomologist,{{cite web|url=http://www.eeb.utoronto.ca/about-us/support_us/gradscholarships/schol_atwood.htm|title=Carl E. Atwood Graduate Scholarship in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology|website=University of Toronto|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313044308/http://www.eeb.utoronto.ca/about-us/support_us/gradscholarships/schol_atwood.htm|url-status=dead}} and Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia.{{cite book|last=Foote|first=Hazel|title=The Homes of Woodville|publisher=M.A. Jorgenson|location= Woodville, Nova Scotia|date=1997|page=109}} Because of her father's research in forest entomology, Atwood spent much of her childhood in the backwoods of northern Quebec,{{cite news|date=August 9, 2016|title=Margaret Atwood's Wild Childhood|language=en-US|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/margaret-atwoods-wild-childhood-1470758356|access-date=May 20, 2021|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=May 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520075006/https://www.wsj.com/articles/margaret-atwoods-wild-childhood-1470758356|url-status=live}} and traveling back and forth between Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

She did not attend school full-time until she was 12 years old. She became a voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books. She attended Leaside High School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957.{{Cite book|last=Cooke|first=Nathalie|year=1998|title=Margaret Atwood: A Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodbi0000cook|url-access=registration|location=Toronto|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-308-8|oclc=40460322}} Atwood began writing plays and poems at the age of 6.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bzw1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159|title=Great Writers on the Art of Fiction: From Mark Twain to Joyce Carol Oates|last=Daley|first=James|publisher=Courier Corporation|year=2007|isbn=978-0-486-45128-2|page=159}}

As a child, she also participated in the Brownie program of Girl Guides of Canada. Atwood has written about her experiences in Girl Guides in several of her publications.{{cite web|last=Hicks|first=Cara|title=What it Means (to me) to Be an Owl|url=https://girlguidescanblog.ca/2013/08/07/what-it-means-to-me-to-be-an-owl/|url-status=live|website=GirlGuidesCANBlog|date=August 7, 2013|access-date=May 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806003244/https://girlguidescanblog.ca/2013/08/07/what-it-means-to-me-to-be-an-owl/|archive-date=August 6, 2020|language=en-US}}

Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally when she was 16.[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2262/margaret-atwood-the-art-of-fiction-no-121-margaret-atwood Margaret Atwood: The Art of Fiction No.121] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220045322/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2262/margaret-atwood-the-art-of-fiction-no-121-margaret-atwood|date=December 20, 2016}}. The Paris Review. Retrieved December 4, 2016. In 1957, she began studying at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, where she published poems and articles in Acta Victoriana, the college literary journal, and participated in the sophomore theatrical tradition of The Bob Comedy Revue.[http://www.thenewspaper.ca/the-arts/despite-cuts-and-critics-bob-carries O'Grady, Conner] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616103915/http://www.thenewspaper.ca/the-arts/despite-cuts-and-critics-bob-carries|date=June 16, 2018}} "Despite cuts and critics, Bob carries on"; the newspaper; University of Toronto; December 18, 2013. Her professors included Jay Macpherson and Northrop Frye. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honours) and minors in philosophy and French.{{rp|54}}

In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship.{{cite web|url=http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood/|title=University of Toronto Alumni Website » Margaret Atwood|website=alumni.utoronto.ca|access-date=January 24, 2017|archive-date=March 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323230151/http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood/|url-status=live}} She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued doctoral studies for two years, but did not finish her dissertation, The English Metaphysical Romance.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/oates-poet.html|title=On Being a Poet: A Conversation With Margaret Atwood|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 24, 2017|archive-date=March 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311123524/http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/21/reviews/oates-poet.html|url-status=live}}

Atwood has a sister, Ruth Atwood, born in 1951, and a brother who is two years older, Harold Leslie Atwood.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/26/fiction.margaretatwood|title=Light in the wilderness|work=The Guardian|author=Robert Potts|date=April 16, 2003|access-date=April 16, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404180714/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/26/fiction.margaretatwood|url-status=live}} She has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor: "On Monday, my grandmother would say Mary was her ancestor, and on Wednesday she would say she wasn't ... So take your pick."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia|title=Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia|last=Mead|first=Rebecca|date=April 10, 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=February 4, 2018|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=August 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829170245/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia|url-status=live}} Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985).{{Cite web|url=https://woodlawnschool.pbworks.com/f/The+Crucible+-+Half+Hanged+Mary+Poem+PDF.pdf|title=The Crucible - The Half-Hanged Mary Poem|access-date=December 15, 2020|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816110439/https://woodlawnschool.pbworks.com/f/The+Crucible+-+Half+Hanged+Mary+Poem+PDF.pdf|url-status=live}} At the beginning The Handmaid's Tale was named after its main character, "Offred".{{Cite news|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|date=March 10, 2017|title=Margaret Atwood on What 'The Handmaid's Tale' Means in the Age of Trump|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/books/review/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-age-of-trump.html|access-date=January 7, 2024|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but they divorced in 1973.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RNakAfT77CgC&pg=PA7|title=Reading, Learning, Teaching Margaret Atwood|last=Thomas|first=Paul Lee|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|year=2007|page=7|access-date=August 8, 2013|isbn=978-0820486710|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094927/https://books.google.com/books?id=RNakAfT77CgC&pg=PA7|url-status=live}} She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976.

The family returned to Toronto in 1980.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aV9ot7kGdi4C&pg=PA721|title=Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives|last=Sutherland|first=John|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-300-18243-9|page=721|access-date=April 11, 2016|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094923/https://books.google.com/books?id=aV9ot7kGdi4C&pg=PA721|url-status=live}} Atwood and Gibson were together until September 18, 2019, when Gibson died after suffering from dementia.{{cite web|url=https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/canadian-author-graeme-gibson-dead-at-85-1.4598787|title=Canadian author Graeme Gibson dead at 85|publisher=CP24|date=September 18, 2019|access-date=September 18, 2019|archive-date=March 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308184344/https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/canadian-author-graeme-gibson-partner-of-margaret-atwood-dies-at-age-85-1.4598787|url-status=live}} She wrote about Gibson in the poem Dearly and in an accompanying essay on grief and poetry published in The Guardian in 2020.{{Cite news|last1=Atwood|first1=Margaret|title=Caught in time's current: Margaret Atwood on grief, poetry and the past four years|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2020/nov/07/caught-in-times-current-margaret-atwood-on-grief-poetry-and-the-past-four-years|date=November 7, 2020|issn=0261-3077|access-date=November 8, 2020|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108163218/https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2020/nov/07/caught-in-times-current-margaret-atwood-on-grief-poetry-and-the-past-four-years|url-status=live}} Atwood said about Gibson "He wasn't an egotist, so he wasn't threatened by anything I was doing. He said to our daughter towards the end of his life, 'Your mum would still have been a writer if she hadn't met me, but she wouldn't have had as much fun'".{{Cite news|title=Margaret Atwood on feminism, culture wars and speaking her mind: 'I'm very willing to listen, but not to be scammed'|last=Freeman|first=Hadley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 19, 2022|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2022/feb/19/margaret-atwood-on-feminism-culture-wars|access-date=February 19, 2022|archive-date=February 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219184406/https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2022/feb/19/margaret-atwood-on-feminism-culture-wars|url-status=live}}

Although she is an accomplished writer, Atwood says that she is "a terrible speller" who writes both on a computer and by hand.{{cite web|last=Setoodeh|first=Ramin|title=Margaret Atwood on How Donald Trump Helped 'The Handmaid's Tale'|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-trump-feminism-1202748535/|url-status=live|work=Variety|date=April 10, 2018|access-date=July 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719084222/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-trump-feminism-1202748535/|archive-date=July 19, 2018}}

Atwood maintains a summer home on Pelee Island in Lake Erie.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/pelee-island-margaret-atwood-1.4109596|title=Margaret Atwood talks writing on Pelee Island while meeting with Windsor-Essex students|author=Aadel Haleem|website=cbc.ca|access-date=December 24, 2024}}

Atwood's first book of poetry, Double Persephone, was published as a pamphlet by John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press in 1961, and won the E. J. Pratt Medal.{{cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2810|title=The Plutzik Reading Series Features Margaret Atwood|website=University of Rochester|date=March 12, 2007|access-date=May 9, 2018|archive-date=May 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510050529/http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2810|url-status=dead }} While continuing to write, Atwood was a lecturer in English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from 1964 to 1965, Instructor in English at the Sir George Williams University in Montreal from 1967 to 1968, and taught at the University of Alberta from 1969 to 1970. In 1966, The Circle Game was published, winning the Governor General's Award.{{cite web|url=http://ggbooks.ca/past-winners-and-finalists|title=Past winners and finalists|website=Governor General's Literary Awards|publisher=Canada Council for the Arts|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404182809/https://ggbooks.ca/past-winners-and-finalists|url-status=live}} From 1936; new awards added to list annually. This collection was followed by three other small press collections of poetry: Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1965); Talismans for Children, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1965); and Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein, Cranbrook Academy of Art (1966); as well as The Animals in That Country (1968). Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, was published in 1969. As a social satire of North American consumerism, many critics have often cited the novel as an early example of the feminist concerns found in many of Atwood's works.{{Cite book|last=Cooke|first=Nathalie|date=2004|title=Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0313328060|oclc=145520009}}

Atwood taught at York University in Toronto from 1971 to 1972 and was a writer in residence at the University of Toronto during the 1972/1973 academic year.{{Cite book|editor1-last=VanSpanckeren|editor1-first=Kathryn|editor2-last=Castro|editor2-first=Jan Garden|year=1988|title=Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodvi0000unse/mode/2up|url-access=registration|series=Ad Feminam: Women and Literature|location=Carbondale, IL|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|isbn=0585106290|oclc=43475939}}{{Rp|pp=xxix–xxx}} Atwood published six collections of poetry over the course of the decade: The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), Procedures for Underground (1970), Power Politics (1971), You Are Happy (1974), Selected Poems 1965–1975 (1976), and Two-Headed Poems (1978). Atwood also published three novels during this time: Surfacing (1972); Lady Oracle (1976); and Life Before Man (1979), which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Surfacing, Lady Oracle, and Life Before Man, like The Edible Woman, explore identity and social constructions of gender as they relate to topics such as nationhood and sexual politics.{{Cite book|last=Howells|first=Coral Ann|date=2005|title=Margaret Atwood|edition=2nd|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=1403922004|oclc=57391913}} In particular, Surfacing, along with her first non-fiction monograph, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972), helped establish Atwood as an important and emerging voice in Canadian literature.{{Cite book|title=National and Female Identity in Canadian Literature, 1965–1980 : the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel|last=Cinda|first=Gault|date=2012|location=Lewiston, New York|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press|isbn=978-0773426221|oclc=799769643}} In 1977 Atwood published her first short story collection, Dancing Girls, which was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction.

By 1976, there was such interest in Atwood, her works, and her life that Maclean's declared her to be "Canada's most gossiped-about writer."{{Cite web|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/issue/19760906|title=Maclean's — September 1976|website=Maclean's {{!}} The Complete Archive|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809235550/https://archive.macleans.ca/issue/19760906|url-status=live}}

Atwood's literary reputation continued to rise in the 1980s with the publication of Bodily Harm (1981); The Handmaid's Tale (1985), winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award{{Cite news|url=https://www.clarkeaward.com/award-winners/|title=Award Winners|date=April 21, 2011|work=Arthur C. Clarke Award|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105043503/https://www.clarkeaward.com/award-winners/|archive-date=November 5, 2018|url-status=dead}} and 1985 Governor General's Award and finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize;{{Cite web|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1986|title=The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Backlist {{!}} The Man Booker Prizes|website=themanbookerprize.com|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100119/http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1986|url-status=live}} and Cat's Eye (1988), finalist for both the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1989|title=The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Backlist {{!}} The Man Booker Prizes|website=themanbookerprize.com|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712221243/https://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1989|url-status=live}} Despite her distaste for literary labels, Atwood has since conceded to referring to The Handmaid's Tale as a work of science fiction or, more precisely, speculative fiction.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/17/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.margaretatwood|title=Aliens have taken the place of angels|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|date=June 17, 2005|work=The Guardian|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=May 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506142917/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/17/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.margaretatwood|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|title=In Other Worlds : SF and the Human Imagination|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|year=2012|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0307741769|edition= 1st Anchor Books|location=New York|oclc=773021848}} As she has repeatedly noted, "There's a precedent in real life for everything in the book. I decided not to put anything in that somebody somewhere hadn't already done."{{Cite news|url=http://people.com/books/margaret-atwood-talks-handmaids-tale-trump-era/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag|title=Margaret Atwood on Why The Handmaid's Tale Resonates in the Trump Era: It's 'No Longer a Fantasy Fiction'|work=People|first1=Sam|last1=Gillette|first2=Kim|last2=Hubbard|date=May 5, 2017|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100122/http://people.com/books/margaret-atwood-talks-handmaids-tale-trump-era/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag|url-status=live}}

While reviewers and critics have been tempted to read autobiographical elements of Atwood's life in her work, particularly Cat's Eye,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-eye.html|title=What Little Girls Are Made Of|website=The New York Times|first=Alice|last=McDermott|date=February 5, 1989|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=March 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305042820/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-eye.html|url-status=live}}{{Rp|page=xxx}} in general Atwood resists the desire of critics to read too closely for an author's life in their writing. Filmmaker Michael Rubbo's Margaret Atwood: Once in August (1984){{Cite AV media|url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/margaret_atwood_once_in_august/|title=Margaret Atwood: Once in August|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|year=1984|people=Michael Rubbo|medium=Documentary film|access-date=June 13, 2012|archive-date=September 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909035554/http://www.nfb.ca/film/margaret_atwood_once_in_august/|url-status=live}} details the filmmaker's frustration in uncovering autobiographical evidence and inspiration in Atwood's works.{{Cite book|last=Howells|first=Coral Ann|title=The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood|year=2006|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-54851-9|oclc=61362106}}

During the 1980s, Atwood continued to teach, serving as the MFA Honorary Chair at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 1985; the Berg Professor of English, New York University, 1986; Writer-in-Residence, Macquarie University, Australia, 1987; and Writer-in-Residence, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1989.{{Rp|pages=xxix–xxx}} Regarding her stints with teaching, she has noted, "Success for me meant no longer having to teach at university."{{Cite news|url=http://people.com/archive/reflected-in-margaret-atwoods-cats-eye-girlhood-looms-as-a-time-of-cruelty-and-terror-vol-31-no-9/|title=Reflected in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, Girlhood Looms as a Time of Cruelty and Terror|work=People|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100012/http://people.com/archive/reflected-in-margaret-atwoods-cats-eye-girlhood-looms-as-a-time-of-cruelty-and-terror-vol-31-no-9/|url-status=live}}

Atwood's reputation as a writer continued to grow with the publication of the novels The Robber Bride (1993), finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award,{{Cite web|url=https://tiptree.org/award/1993-james-tiptree-jr-award/1993-honor-list|title=1993 Honor List « James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|website=James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award|date=March 12, 2010|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094926/https://otherwiseaward.org/award/1993-otherwise-award/1993-honor-list|url-status=live}} and Alias Grace (1996), winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize,{{Cite web|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1996|title=The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Backlist {{!}} The Man Booker Prizes|website=themanbookerprize.com|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=January 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126054921/http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/1996|url-status=live}} finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Award, and shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction.{{Cite web|url=https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/about/previous-winners/1997|title=Women's Prize for Fiction|website=womensprizeforfiction.co.uk|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712183142/https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/about/previous-winners/1997|url-status=live}} Although vastly different in context and form, both novels use female characters to question good and evil and morality through their portrayal of female villains. As Atwood noted about The Robber Bride, "I'm not making a case for evil behavior, but unless you have some women characters portrayed as evil characters, you're not playing with a full range."{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/12/05/margaret-atwoods-new-book-explores-powers-duality/|title=Margaret Atwood's New Book Explores Power's Duality|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100404/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-12-05/features/9312050151_1_robber-bride-margaret-atwood-zenia|url-status=live}} The Robber Bride takes place in contemporary Toronto, while Alias Grace is a work of historical fiction detailing the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery. Atwood had previously written the 1974 CBC made-for-TV film The Servant Girl, about the life of Grace Marks, the young servant who, along with James McDermott, was convicted of the crime.{{cite news|url=http://margaretatwood.ca/full-bibliography-2/|title=Full Bibliography|website=margaretatwood.ca|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201193428/http://margaretatwood.ca/full-bibliography-2/|url-status=live}} Atwood continued her poetry contributions by publishing Snake Woman in 1999 for the Women's Literature journal Kalliope.{{cite journal|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|title=Snake Woman|url=https://fscj.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fscj%3A4953#page/60|journal=Kalliope, A Journal of Women's Art and Literature|volume=20|issue=3|pages=59}}

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In 2000, Atwood published her tenth novel, The Blind Assassin, to critical acclaim, winning both the Booker Prize{{cite web|url=http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/2000|title=The Man Booker Prize for Fiction Backlist {{!}} The Man Booker Prizes|website=themanbookerprize.com|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=January 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127040029/http://themanbookerprize.com/fiction/backlist/2000|url-status=live}} and the Hammett Prize{{cite web|url=http://www.crimewritersna.org/hammett/past.htm|title=IACW/NA: Hammett Prize: Past Years|last=Sciandra|first=Mary Frisque and Lisa|website=crimewritersna.org|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=April 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429053340/http://www.crimewritersna.org/hammett/past.htm|url-status=live}} in 2000. The Blind Assassin was also nominated for the Governor General's Award in 2000, Orange Prize for Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771008641|title=Publisher's page on The Blind Assassin|publisher=McClelland and Stewart|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325053418/http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771008641|archive-date=March 25, 2014}} In 2001, Atwood was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2001/margaret-atwood|title=Canada's Walk of Fame Inducts Margaret Atwood|publisher=Canada's Walk of Fame|access-date=July 15, 2014|archive-date=July 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719053057/http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/2001/margaret-atwood|url-status=live}}

Atwood followed this success with the publication of Oryx and Crake in 2003, the first novel in a series that also includes The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), which would collectively come to be known as the MaddAddam Trilogy. The apocalyptic vision in the MaddAddam Trilogy engages themes of genetic modification, pharmaceutical and corporate control, and man-made disaster.{{Cite book|editor-last=Waltonen|editor-first=Karma|title=Margaret Atwood's Apocalypses|location=Newcastle upon Tyne, UK|publisher=Cambridge Scholars|isbn=978-1322607894|oclc=901287105}} As a work of speculative fiction, Atwood notes of the technology in Oryx and Crake, "I think, for the first time in human history, we see where we might go. We can see far enough into the future to know that we can't go on the way we've been going forever without inventing, possibly, a lot of new and different things."{{Cite news|url=https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/margaret-atwood-on-the-science-behind-oryx-and-crake/|title=Margaret Atwood on the Science Behind Oryx and Crake|work=Science Friday|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201200222/https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/margaret-atwood-on-the-science-behind-oryx-and-crake/|url-status=live}} She later cautions in the acknowledgements to MaddAddam, "Although MaddAddam is a work of fiction, it does not include any technologies or bio-beings that do not already exist, are not under construction or are not possible in theory."{{Cite book|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|year=2013|title=MaddAddam: A Novel|edition=First United States|location=New York|publisher=Nan A. Talese/Doubleday|isbn=978-0307455482|oclc=825733384}}

In 2005, Atwood published the novella The Penelopiad as part of the Canongate Myth Series. The story is a retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope and a chorus of the twelve maids murdered at the end of the original tale. The Penelopiad was given a theatrical production in 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/theatre/2013/02/22/penelopiad/|title=RMTC's "The Penelopiad" offers an intriguing new take on a familiar tale|publisher=CBC Manitoba|access-date=May 5, 2018|archive-date=February 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227193846/http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/theatre/2013/02/22/penelopiad/|url-status=live}}

In 2016, Atwood published the novel Hag-Seed, a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, as part of Penguin Random House's Hogarth Shakespeare Series.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/why-rewrite-shakespeare|title=Why Rewrite Shakespeare?|last=Gopnik|first=Adam|author-link=Adam Gopnik|date=October 10, 2016|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=May 5, 2018|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=May 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510115100/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/why-rewrite-shakespeare|url-status=live}}

On November 28, 2018, Atwood announced that she would publish The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, in September 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/books/margaret-atwood-sequel-handmaids-tale-testaments.html|title=Margaret Atwood Will Write a Sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 28, 2018|access-date=November 28, 2018|last1=Alter|first1=Alexandra|archive-date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128203911/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/books/margaret-atwood-sequel-handmaids-tale-testaments.html|url-status=live }} The novel features three female narrators and takes place fifteen years after the character Offred's final scene in The Handmaid's Tale. The book was the joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/14/booker-prize-judges-break-the-rules-and-insist-on-joint-winners|title=Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=October 14, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 14, 2019|archive-date=October 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021003651/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/14/booker-prize-judges-break-the-rules-and-insist-on-joint-winners|url-status=live}}

In 2008, Atwood published Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a collection of five lectures delivered as part of the Massey Lectures from October 12 to November 1, 2008. The book was released in anticipation of the lectures, which were also recorded and broadcast on CBC Radio One's Ideas.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2008-cbc-massey-lectures-payback-debt-and-the-shadow-side-of-wealth-1.2946880|title=The 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" {{!}} CBC Radio|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=May 5, 2018|archive-date=May 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501134518/http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2008-cbc-massey-lectures-payback-debt-and-the-shadow-side-of-wealth-1.2946880|url-status=live}}

In March 2008, Atwood accepted a chamber opera commission. Commissioned by City Opera of Vancouver, Pauline is set in Vancouver in March 1913 during the final days of the life of Canadian writer and performer Pauline Johnson.The Vancouver Sun (March 11, 2008). [http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=45d3df1d-8744-4b72-bd52-4ef6ca1d8ab3&k=19276 "Atwood pens opera piece about Vancouver first nations writer-performer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210121329/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=45d3df1d-8744-4b72-bd52-4ef6ca1d8ab3&k=19276|date=February 10, 2015}}. Retrieved July 1, 2014. Pauline, composed by Tobin Stokes with libretto by Atwood, premiered on May 23, 2014, at Vancouver's York Theatre.CBC News (May 23, 2014). [http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/margaret-atwood-s-opera-debut-pauline-opens-in-vancouver-1.2652605 "Margaret Atwood's opera debut Pauline opens in Vancouver"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608064357/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/margaret-atwood-s-opera-debut-pauline-opens-in-vancouver-1.2652605|date=June 8, 2014 }}. Retrieved July 1, 2014.

In 2016, Atwood began writing the superhero comic book series Angel Catbird, with co-creator and illustrator Johnnie Christmas. The series protagonist, scientist Strig Feleedus, is victim of an accidental mutation that leaves him with the body parts and powers of both a cat and a bird.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/11/490101940/margaret-atwood-plays-with-the-superhero-genre-in-angel-catbird|title=Margaret Atwood Plays With The Superhero Genre In 'Angel Catbird'|publisher=NPR|access-date=May 5, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509221350/https://www.npr.org/2016/09/11/490101940/margaret-atwood-plays-with-the-superhero-genre-in-angel-catbird|url-status=live}} As with her other works, Atwood notes of the series, "The kind of speculative fiction about the future that I write is always based on things that are in process right now. So it's not that I imagine them, it's that I notice that people are working on them and I take it a few steps further down the road. So it doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes out of real life."{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/492449474/margaret-atwood-i-finally-got-to-do-my-cat-with-wings|title=Margaret Atwood: 'I Finally Got To Do My Cat With Wings'|publisher=NPR|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712184204/https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/492449474/margaret-atwood-i-finally-got-to-do-my-cat-with-wings|url-status=live}}

With her novel Scribbler Moon, Atwood is the first contributor to the Future Library project.{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/05/27/margaret-atwood-scribbler-moon-future-library/|title=Margaret Atwood submits Scribbler Moon, which won't be read until 2114, to Future Library|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=January 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072248/http://ew.com/article/2015/05/27/margaret-atwood-scribbler-moon-future-library/|url-status=live}} The work, completed in 2015, was ceremonially handed over to the project on May 27 of the same year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/27/margaret-atwood-scribbler-moon-future-library-norway-katie-paterson|title=Into the woods: Margaret Atwood reveals her Future Library book, Scribbler Moon|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=May 27, 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=January 22, 2018|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116092903/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/27/margaret-atwood-scribbler-moon-future-library-norway-katie-paterson|url-status=live}} The book will be held by the project until its eventual publishing in 2114. She thinks that readers will probably need a paleo-anthropologist to translate some parts of her story.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/margaret-atwood-new-work-unseen-century-future-library|title=Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=September 5, 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=September 7, 2014|archive-date=November 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110050914/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/05/margaret-atwood-new-work-unseen-century-future-library|url-status=live}} In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Atwood said, "There's something magical about it. It's like Sleeping Beauty. The texts are going to slumber for 100 years and then they'll wake up, come to life again. It's a fairytale length of time. She slept for 100 years."

In early 2004, while on the paperback tour in Denver for her novel Oryx and Crake, Atwood conceived the concept of a remote robotic writing technology, what would later be known as the LongPen, that would enable a person to remotely write in ink anywhere in the world via tablet PC and the Internet, thus allowing her to conduct her book tours without being physically present. She quickly founded a company, Unotchit Inc., to develop, produce and distribute this technology. By 2011, the company shifted its market focus into business and legal transactions and was producing a range of products, for a variety of remote writing applications, based on the LongPen technologies. In 2013, the company renamed itself to Syngrafii Inc. In 2021, it is cloud-based and offers electronic signature technology. As of May 2021, Atwood is still a director of Syngrafii Inc. and holder of various patents related to the LongPen and related technology.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/06/topstories3.books|title=Atwood sign of the times draws blank|first=Oliver|last=Burkeman|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 6, 2006|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=December 12, 2016|archive-date=May 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524011002/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/06/topstories3.books|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks|title=Stocks|website=Bloomberg.com|access-date=March 9, 2021|archive-date=May 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508034725/https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/patents/Index.aspx|title=Australian Patents|website=www.ipaustralia.com.au|access-date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925193849/http://www.ipaustralia.com.au/patents/Index.aspx|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.quanser.com/case_study/unotchit/|title=Unotchit|website=Quanser|access-date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925193850/https://www.quanser.com/case_study/unotchit/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.design-engineering.com/motion-control/robotic-arm-extend-authors-signatures-over-cyberspace-10411|title=Robotic arm extend authors' signatures over cyberspace|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902020835/http://www.design-engineering.com/motion-control/robotic-arm-extend-authors-signatures-over-cyberspace-10411|archive-date=September 2, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.syngrafii.com/about|title=Blending tradition and technology for a more secure world|access-date=May 16, 2021|archive-date=May 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516060357/https://syngrafii.com/about/|url-status=live}}

In November 2020 Atwood published Dearly, a collection of poems exploring absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, and gifts and renewals.{{Cite book|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|title=Dearly|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119961/dearly/9781784743895.html|access-date=November 8, 2020|language=en|archive-date=August 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813013051/https://penguin.co.uk/books/1119961/dearly/9781784743895.html|url-status=dead}} The central poem, Dearly, was also published in The Guardian newspaper along with an essay exploring the passing of time, grief, and how a poem belongs to the reader; this is accompanied by an audio recording of Atwood reading the poem on the newspaper's website.

Atwood's contributions to the theorizing of Canadian identity have garnered attention both in Canada and internationally. Her principal work of literary criticism, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, is considered somewhat outdated, but remains a standard introduction to Canadian literature in Canadian studies programs internationally.{{cite book|title="Margaret Atwood: Branding an Icon Abroad" in Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye|last=Moss|first=Laura|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|year=2006|editor=John Moss|location=Ottawa|page=28|author-link=|editor2=Tobi Kozakewich}}Chambers, C. M. (1999). A topography for canadian curriculum theory. Canadian Journal of Education, 24(2), 137.Atwood, M. (July 1, 1999). "Survival, then and now." Maclean's, 112, 54. Writer and academic Joseph Pivato has criticised the continued reprinting of Survival by Anansi Press as a view-narrowing disservice to students of Canadian literature.{{Cite web|last=Pivato|first=Joseph|author-link=Joseph Pivato|date=October 6, 2020|orig-year=April 26, 2016|title=Atwood's Survival: A Critique|url=https://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/matwood/survival.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412082134/http://canadian-writers.athabascau.ca/english/writers/matwood/survival.php|archive-date=April 12, 2018|url-status=live|department=Canadian Writers|publisher=Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University|access-date=April 11, 2018}}

In Survival, Atwood postulates that Canadian literature, and by extension Canadian identity, is characterized by the symbol of survival.{{Cite book|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|year=1972|title=Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/survivalthematic0000atwo|url-access=registration|location=Toronto|publisher=Anansi|page=[https://archive.org/details/survivalthematic0000atwo/page/32 32]}} This symbol is expressed in the omnipresent use of "victim positions" in Canadian literature. These positions represent a scale of self-consciousness and self-actualization for the victim in the "victor/victim" relationship.Atwood, M. (1972), 36–42. The "victor" in these scenarios may be other humans, nature, the wilderness or other external and internal factors which oppress the victim. Atwood's Survival bears the influence of Northrop Frye's theory of garrison mentality; Atwood uses Frye's concept of Canada's desire to wall itself off from outside influence as a critical tool to analyze Canadian literature.{{Cite book|last=Pache|first=Walter|year=2002|chapter=A Certain Frivolity: Margaret Atwood's Literary Criticism|editor-last=Nischik|editor-first=Reingard M.|editor-link=Reingard M. Nischik|title=Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact|location=Toronto|publisher=House of Anansi Press|page=122|isbn=978-1-57113-269-7|oclc=53823716}} According to her theories in works such as Survival and her exploration of similar themes in her fiction, Atwood considers Canadian literature as the expression of Canadian identity. According to this literature, Canadian identity has been defined by a fear of nature, by settler history, and by unquestioned adherence to the community.{{Cite book|title=Survival : a thematic guide to Canadian literature|author=Atwood Margaret|date=1996|publisher=M & S|isbn=978-0771008320|edition= 1st McClelland & Stewart|location=Toronto, Ontario|oclc=35930298|orig-year=1972}} In an interview with the Scottish critic Bill Findlay in 1979, Atwood discussed the relationship of Canadian writers and writing to the 'Imperial Cultures' of America and Britain.{{Cite journal|last=Findlay|first=Bill|author-link=Bill Findlay (writer)|date=Autumn 1979|title=Interview with Margaret Atwood|editor-last=Bold|editor-first=Christine|journal=Cencrastus|issue=1|pages=2–6|issn=0264-0856}}

Atwood's contribution to the theorizing of Canada is not limited to her non-fiction works. Several of her works, including The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and Surfacing, are examples of what postmodern literary theorist Linda Hutcheon calls "historiographic metafiction".{{cite book|title="Writing History from The Journals of Susanna Moodie to The Blind Assassin" in Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye|last=Howells|first=Coral Ann|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|year=2006|editor=John Moss|location=Ottawa|page=111|editor2=Tobi Kozakewich}} In such works, Atwood explicitly explores the relation of history and narrative and the processes of creating history.{{cite web|title=Structuralist analysis of Margaret Atwood's novels The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, and The Robber Bride|url=http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10641/1/2014%20Zeljezic%20diplomski%20-ANG.pdf|access-date=October 17, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112211722/http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10641/1/2014%20Zeljezic%20diplomski%20-ANG.pdf|url-status=live }}

Among her contributions to Canadian literature, Atwood is a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize,{{cite web|url=http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/about/trustees/|title=Griffin Poetry Prize: The Griffin Trust: Trustees|access-date=June 8, 2014|archive-date=September 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928162651/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/about/trustees/|url-status=live}} as well as a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.{{cite web|url=http://www.writerstrust.com/About.aspx|title=About Us: The Writers' Trust of Canada|access-date=February 18, 2014|archive-date=February 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209150438/http://www.writerstrust.com/About.aspx|url-status=live}} She has called Mona Awad, a Canadian novelist and short-story writer, her "literary heir apparent".{{cite news|last1=Guadagnino|first1=Kate|title=Margaret Atwood and Mona Awad on Writing Outside the Lines|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/margaret-atwood-mona-awad.html|access-date=May 8, 2023|work=T: The New York Times Style Magazine|date=April 20, 2023}}

Atwood's work has been of interest to feminist literary critics, despite Atwood's unwillingness at times to apply the label 'feminist' to her works.{{Cite book|last=Tolan|first=Fiona|year=2007|title=Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-2223-2|oclc=173507440}} Starting with the publication of her first novel, The Edible Woman, Atwood asserted, "I don't consider it feminism; I just consider it social realism."Kaminski, Margaret, "Preserving Mythologies", Margaret Atwood: Conversations, ed. Earl G. Ingersoll, Princeton, 1990, pp. 27–32.

Despite her rejection of the label at times, critics have analyzed the sexual politics, use of myth and fairytale, and gendered relationships in Atwood's work through the lens of feminism.{{cite book|last=Rose Wilson|first=Sharon|title=Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson, MS|date=1993|isbn=978-0585227153|oclc=44959649}} Before the 1985 publication of The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood gave an interview to feminist theorist Elizabeth Meese in which she defined feminism as a "belief in the rights of women" and averred that "if practical, hardline, anti-male feminists took over and became the government, I would resist them."{{cite journal| url=https://dystopiaandgender.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/just-a-backlash.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712044902/https://dystopiaandgender.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/just-a-backlash.pdf|archive-date=July 12, 2022|author= Shirley Neuman|title='Just a Backlash': Margaret Atwood, Feminism, and The Handmaid's Tale|year= 2006|journal= The University of Toronto Quarterly|volume=75|issue=3|pages= 857–68}} In 2017, she clarified her discomfort with the label feminism by stating, "I always want to know what people mean by that word [feminism]. Some people mean it quite negatively, other people mean it very positively, some people mean it in a broad sense, other people mean it in a more specific sense. Therefore, in order to answer the question, you have to ask the person what they mean."{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-margaret-atwood-feminism-handmaid-tale-20170424-htmlstory.html|title=Margaret Atwood answers the question: Is 'The Handmaid's Tale' a feminist book?|last=McNamara|first=Mary|website=Los Angeles Times|date=April 24, 2017|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205135022/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-margaret-atwood-feminism-handmaid-tale-20170424-htmlstory.html|url-status=live}} Speaking to The Guardian, she said "For instance, some feminists have historically been against lipstick and letting transgender women into women's washrooms. Those are not positions I have agreed with",Lisa Allardice, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/20/margaret-atwood-i-am-not-a-prophet-science-fiction-is-about-now Margaret Atwood: 'I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121031531/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/20/margaret-atwood-i-am-not-a-prophet-science-fiction-is-about-now|date=January 21, 2018}}, in The Guardian, January 20, 2018. a position she repeated to The Irish Times.Catherine Conroy, [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/margaret-atwood-when-did-it-become-the-norm-to-expect-a-porn-star-on-the-first-date-1.3408922 Margaret Atwood: 'When did it become the norm to expect a porn star on the first date?'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930231709/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/margaret-atwood-when-did-it-become-the-norm-to-expect-a-porn-star-on-the-first-date-1.3408922|date=September 30, 2018}}, in The Irish Times, March 1, 2018.Kirk, Phoebe, [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-i-wont-call-you-a-terf_uk_5af9985be4b08921ee1612fe "Why I Won't Call You A TERF"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930233208/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-i-wont-call-you-a-terf_uk_5af9985be4b08921ee1612fe|date=September 30, 2018}}, HuffPost (UK), May 18, 2018. In an interview with Penguin Books, Atwood stated that the driving question throughout her writing of The Handmaid's Tale was "If you were going to shove women back into the home and deprive them of all of these gains that they thought they had made, how would you do it?", but related this question to totalitarianism, not feminism.{{cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/margaret-atwood-interview.html|title=Margaret Atwood: 'The Handmaid's Tale is being read very differently now'|website=www.penguin.co.uk|date=April 5, 2018|access-date=September 5, 2019|archive-date=September 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905101447/https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/margaret-atwood-interview.html|url-status=live}}

In January 2018, Atwood penned the op-ed "Am I a Bad Feminist?" for The Globe and Mail.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/|title=Am I a bad feminist?|work=The Globe and the Mail|first=Margaret|last=Atwood|date=January 13, 2018|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206042519/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/|url-status=live}} The piece was in response to social media backlash related to Atwood's signature on a 2016 petition calling for an independent investigation into the firing of Steven Galloway, a former University of British Columbia professor accused of sexual harassment and assault by a student.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42708522|title=Margaret Atwood faces feminist backlash|year=2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213170226/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42708522|url-status=live}} While feminist critics denounced Atwood for her support of Galloway, Atwood asserted that her signature was in support of due process in the legal system. She has been criticized for her comments surrounding the #MeToo movement, particularly that it is a "symptom of a broken legal system".{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/17/margaret-atwood-rips-rape-enabling-bad-feminist-at/|title=Margaret Atwood rips 'rape-enabling Bad Feminist' attacks over #MeToo scrutiny|work=The Washington Times|first=Douglas|last=Ernst|date=January 17, 2018|access-date=February 8, 2018|archive-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207221056/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/17/margaret-atwood-rips-rape-enabling-bad-feminist-at/|url-status=live}}

In 2018, following a partnership between Hulu's adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale and women's rights organisation Equality Now, Atwood was honored at their 2018 Make Equality Reality Gala.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/making-equality-reality-gala-margaret-atwood-amandla-stenberg-honored-1166497|title=Margaret Atwood, Amandla Stenberg Honored at Equality Now Gala|website=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Scott|last=Huver|date=December 4, 2018|language=en|access-date=March 5, 2020|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205004934/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/making-equality-reality-gala-margaret-atwood-amandla-stenberg-honored-1166497|url-status=live}} In her acceptance speech she said:

I am, of course, not a real activist—I'm simply a writer without a job who is frequently asked to speak about subjects that would get people with jobs fired if they themselves spoke. You, however, at Equality Now are real activists. I hope people will give Equality Now lots and lots of money, today, so they can write equal laws, enact equal laws and see that equal laws are implemented. That way, in time, all girls may be able to grow up believing that there are no avenues that are closed to them simply because they are girls.

In 2019, Atwood partnered with Equality Now for the release of The Testaments.{{Cite news|first=Mark|last=Brown|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/07/margaret-atwood-to-launch-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-the-testaments-with-live-cinema-broadcast|title=Atwood to launch The Handmaid's Tale sequel with live broadcast|date=March 7, 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 5, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230155447/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/07/margaret-atwood-to-launch-the-handmaids-tale-sequel-the-testaments-with-live-cinema-broadcast|url-status=live}}

Atwood has resisted the suggestion that The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are science fiction, suggesting to The Guardian in 2003 that they are speculative fiction: "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships; speculative fiction could really happen."{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/26/fiction.margaretatwood|title=Light in the wilderness|last=Potts|first=Robert|date=April 26, 2003|work=The Guardian|access-date=May 30, 2013|archive-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005061502/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/26/fiction.margaretatwood|url-status=live}} She told the Book of the Month Club: "Oryx and Crake is a speculative fiction, not a science fiction proper. It contains no intergalactic space travel, no teleportation, no Martians."Langford, David, [http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx107.html "Bits and Pieces"], SFX magazine No. 107, August 2003. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820072020/http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/sfx107.html|date=August 20, 2009 }} On BBC Breakfast, she explained that science fiction, as opposed to what she herself wrote, was "talking squids in outer space." The latter phrase particularly rankled advocates of science fiction and frequently recurs when her writing is discussed.

In 2005, Atwood said that she did at times write social science fiction and that The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake could be designated as such. She clarified her meaning on the difference between speculative and science fiction, admitting that others used the terms interchangeably: "For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do ... Speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth." She said that science fiction narratives give a writer the ability to explore themes in ways that realistic fiction cannot.[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/17/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.margaretatwood Atwood, Margaret. "Aliens have taken the place of angels: Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506142917/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/17/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.margaretatwood|date=May 6, 2019 }} The Guardian, June 17, 2005.

Atwood further clarified her definitions of terms in 2011, in a discussion with science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin: "What Le Guin means by 'science fiction' is what I mean by 'speculative fiction', and what she means by 'fantasy' would include what I mean by 'science fiction'."{{cite book|title=In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination|chapter=Introduction|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hOBecTcjtcC&pg=PA7|pages=6–8|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|year=2011|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-53397-3|access-date=March 19, 2023|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094919/https://books.google.com/books?id=8hOBecTcjtcC&pg=PA7|url-status=live }} She added that genre borders were increasingly fluid, and that all forms of "SF" might be placed under a common umbrella.

In 2024 the Republican-dominated Utah Legislature passed a law{{cite web|url=https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/03/29/book-banning-bill-school-districts-power/#:~:text=H.B.%2029%2C%20which%20was%20signed,the%20ULA%20oppose%20H.B.%2029.|title=Book Banning Bill H.B. 29|author=Libbey Hanson|date=March 29, 2024|publisher=The Daily Utah Chronicle|access-date=August 2, 2024}} mandating the removal of books deemed objectionable from all Utah public schools. On August 2, 2024, the Utah State School Board released its first list of objectionable books. One book on this list was penned by Atwood (Oryx and Crake).{{cite web|url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/08/02/utah-book-ban-list-these-titles/|title=Utah Book Ban List|date=August 2, 2024|author=Carmen Nesbitt|publisher=The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=August 8, 2024}}{{cite news|last1=Creamer|first1=Ella|title=Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/07/utah-outlaws-books-by-judy-blume-and-sarah-j-maas-in-first-statewide-ban|access-date=August 8, 2024|work=The Guardian|date=August 7, 2024}}

Atwood repeatedly makes observations about the relationships of humans to animals in her works.{{Cite book|last=Vogt|first=Kathleen|year=1988|chapter=Real and Imaginary Animals in the Poetry of Margaret Atwood|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodvi0000unse/page/162/mode/2up|editor1-last=VanSpanckeren|editor1-first=Kathryn|editor2-last=Castro|editor2-first=Jan Garden|title=Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodvi0000unse/mode/2up|url-access=registration|series=Ad Feminam: Women and Literature|location=Carbondale, IL|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodvi0000unse/page/164/mode/2up 164]|isbn=0585106290|oclc=43475939}} A large portion of the dystopia Atwood creates in Oryx and Crake concerns the genetic modification and alteration of animals and humans, resulting in hybrids such as pigoons, rakunks, wolvogs and Crakers, raising questions on the limits and ethics of science and technology, and on what it means to be human.{{Cite journal|last=Sanderson|first=Jay|title=Pigoons, Rakunks and Crakers: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Genetically Engineered Animals in a (Latourian) Hybrid World|journal=Law and Humanities|volume=7|issue=2|pages=218–239|doi=10.5235/17521483.7.2.218|year=2013|s2cid=144221386}}

In Surfacing, one character remarks about eating animals: "The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people ... And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life." Some characters in her books link sexual oppression to meat-eating and consequently give up meat-eating. In The Edible Woman, Atwood's character Marian identifies with hunted animals and cries after hearing her fiancé's experience of hunting and eviscerating a rabbit. Marian stops eating meat but then later returns to it.Carol J. Adams. 2006. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. The Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 141–142, 152, 195, 197.

In Cat's Eye, the narrator recognizes the similarity between a turkey and a baby. She looks at "the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby. It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird." In Atwood's Surfacing, a dead heron represents purposeless killing and prompts thoughts about other senseless deaths.

Atwood is a pescetarian. In a 2009 interview she stated that "I shouldn't use the term vegetarian because I'm allowing myself gastropods, crustaceans and the occasional fish. Nothing with fur or feathers though".Wright, Laura. (2015). The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror. University of Georgia Press. p. 83. {{ISBN|978-0-8203-4856-8}}

Atwood has indicated in an interview that she considers herself a Red Tory in what she sees as the historical sense of the term, saying that "The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things."Mother Jones:[https://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1997/07/visions.html "Margaret Atwood: The activist author of Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale discusses the politics of art and the art of the con"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211161734/http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1997/07/visions.html|date=February 11, 2009 }}. July/August 1997. She has also stated on Twitter that she is a monarchist.{{cite tweet|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|author-link=Margaret Atwood|user=MargaretAtwood|title=Actually I'm a monarchist. Read again. Nobody's suggesting Queen Vic must go. But nice if (real) Canada honoured its treaties.|date=May 20, 2013|number=336595201973952513|link=https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/336595201973952513}} In the 2008 federal election, she attended a rally for the Bloc Québécois, a Quebec pro-independence party, because of her support for their position on the arts; she said she would vote for the party if she lived in Quebec, and that the choice was between the Bloc and the Conservatives.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/atwood-backs-bloc-on-arts-defence-1.759930|title=Canada Votes — Atwood backs Bloc on arts defence|date=October 4, 2008|access-date=February 21, 2015|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|archive-date=November 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124093007/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/atwood-backs-bloc-on-arts-defence-1.759930|url-status=live}} In an editorial in The Globe and Mail, she urged Canadians to vote for any party other than the Conservatives to prevent them gaining a majority.Margaret, Atwood. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.WAtwood07_PTR/BNStory/politics Anything but a Harper majority] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116185034/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.WAtwood07_PTR/BNStory/politics|date=January 16, 2009}}. The Globe and Mail. October 6, 2008.

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Atwood has strong views on environmental issues, and she and Graeme Gibson were the joint honorary presidents of the Rare Bird Club within BirdLife International. Atwood celebrated her 70th birthday at a gala dinner at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. She stated that she had chosen to attend the event because the city has been home to one of Canada's most ambitious environmental reclamation programs: "When people ask if there's hope (for the environment), I say, if Sudbury can do it, so can you. Having been a symbol of desolation, it's become a symbol of hope."[http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2009/nov/atwood-231109.aspx "Sudbury a symbol of hope: Margaret Atwood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322232919/http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2009/nov/atwood-231109.aspx|date=March 22, 2012 }}. Northern Life, November 23, 2009. Atwood has been chair of the Writers' Union of Canada and helped to found the Canadian English-speaking chapter of PEN International, a group originally started to free politically imprisoned writers.{{Cite interview|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/margaret-atwood-on-pen-and-politics|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|interviewer=Valerie Pringle|title=Margaret Atwood on PEN and politics|website=CBC Archives|date=May 6, 1985|format=video|access-date=May 9, 2018|archive-date=February 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215173812/http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/margaret-atwood-on-pen-and-politics|url-status=live}} She held the position of PEN Canada president in the mid 1980s{{Cite news|url=https://www.writersunion.ca/member/margaret-atwood|title=Member Profile|work=The Writers' Union of Canada|access-date=May 9, 2018|archive-date=May 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180510050447/https://www.writersunion.ca/member/margaret-atwood|url-status=live}} and was the 2017 recipient of the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-pen-margaret-atwood-20170612-story.html|title=Margaret Atwood has a few wry comments about being a PEN Center USA lifetime achievement honoree|last=French|first=Agatha|website=Los Angeles Times|date=June 12, 2017|access-date=January 28, 2018|archive-date=January 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122222236/http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-pen-margaret-atwood-20170612-story.html|url-status=live}} Despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, Atwood visited Israel and accepted the $1,000,000 Dan David Prize along with Indian author Amitav Ghosh at Tel Aviv University in May 2010. Atwood commented that "we don't do cultural boycotts."{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3UDSV5teRIA|title=Atwood Accepts Israeli Prize, Defends 'Artists Without Armies': Interview|last=Ackerman|first=Gwen|date=May 9, 2010|access-date=September 19, 2010|publisher=Bloomberg}}

In her dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), all the developments take place near Boston in the United States, now known as Gilead, while Canada is portrayed as the only hope for an escape. To some this reflects her status of being "in the vanguard of Canadian anti-Americanism of the 1960s and 1970s".{{Cite book|last=Nischik|first=Reingard M.|author-link=Reingard M. Nischik|year=2000|title=Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_xIap0GDbwC&pg=PA6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094922/https://books.google.com/books?id=s_xIap0GDbwC&pg=PA6|url-status=live|archive-date=March 23, 2023|location=Rochester, NY|publisher=Camden House|pages=6, 1433|isbn=978-1-57113-269-7|oclc=53823716|access-date=April 11, 2016}} Critics have seen the mistreated Handmaid as Canada.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLIv_C8hgC&pg=PA154|title=Margaret Atwood: A Jewel in Canadian Writing|last1=Tandon|first1=Neeru|last2=Chandra|first2=Anshul|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|year=2009|pages=154–155|isbn=978-8126910151|access-date=April 11, 2016|archive-date=March 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323094922/https://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLIv_C8hgC&pg=PA154|url-status=live}} During the debate in 1987 over a free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States, Atwood spoke out against the deal and wrote an essay opposing it.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/canada/handmaid.html|url-status=live|date=n.d.|title=The Handmaid's Tale|website=World Literatures in English|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128154355/http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/canada/handmaid.html|archive-date=January 28, 2016}} She said that the 2016 United States presidential election led to an increase in sales of The Handmaid's Tale.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-atwood-trump-idUSKBN15Q0E2|title=Margaret Atwood says Trump win boosted sales of her dystopian classic|last1=Marsh|first1=Sarah|date=February 11, 2017|work=Reuters|access-date=July 2, 2017|archive-date=July 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712103625/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-atwood-trump-idUSKBN15Q0E2|url-status=live}} Amazon reported that The Handmaid's Tale was the most-read book of 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/article/this-year-in-books/|title=This Year in Books|website=Amazon|year=2017|access-date=December 9, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804195341/https://www.amazon.com/article/this-year-in-books/|url-status=live}} The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments, also saw a rapid increase of sales immediately following the 2024 United States presidential election, with The Handmaid's Tale reaching third in Amazon's bestseller's list. Following this election, Atwood wrote on X, "Despair is not an option. It helps no one."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/sales-dystopian-books-trump-election-handmaids-tale-on-tyranny|title=Sales surge for dystopian books after Trump election victory|last1=Creamer|first1=Ella|work=The Guardian|access-date=November 9, 2024|date=November 7, 2024}}{{cite tweet|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|author-link=Margaret Atwood|user=MargaretAtwood|title=Despair is not an option. It helps no one.|date=November 6, 2024|number=1854350767001370653|link=https://x.com/MargaretAtwood/status/1854350767001370653}}

In 2024, Atwood had a cameo in a season 17 episode of Murdoch Mysteries as Lorin Quinelle, an amateur ornithologist.{{cite web |author= |date=Feb 25, 2025 |title=Margaret Atwood acts on Murdoch Mysteries |url=https://www.facebook.com/cbcgem/videos/margaret-atwood-acts-on-murdoch-mysteries/1105419627258879 |location=Canada |publisher=CBC GEM |access-date=Jan 9, 2025}}

In 2018, Atwood signed an appeal of the American PEN Center in defense of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a political prisoner in Russia.{{Cite web|title=PEN International — Promoting freedom of expression and literature|url=https://pen-international.org/print/6969|access-date=March 10, 2022|website=PEN International|language=en|archive-date=October 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023114818/https://pen-international.org/print/6969|url-status=live }}

In July 2020, Atwood was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."{{Cite magazine|date=July 7, 2020|title=A Letter on Justice and Open Debate {{!}} Harper's Magazine|url=https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/|access-date=August 23, 2022|magazine=Harper's Magazine|language=en|archive-date=July 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723175921/https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/|url-status=live }}

On February 24, 2022, Atwood briefly covered the war in Ukraine at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and published a link to the state aid fund on Twitter.{{Cite tweet|last=Atwood|first=Margaret|user=MargaretAtwood|number=1496967466659967001|date=|title=People in Ukraine are in panic, hiding in basements while Russia bombards homes, hospitals and schools. @SumOfUs is raising funds and sending all of it directly to vetted groups on the group who can help right now - can you chip in? #UkraineRussiaCrisis http://sumof.us/762297575t|link=https://twitter.com/margaretatwood/status/1496967466659967001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310155001/https://twitter.com/margaretatwood/status/1496967466659967001|url-status=live|archive-date=March 10, 2022|access-date=March 28, 2024}}{{Cite news|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=February 28, 2022|title=Margaret Atwood joins writers condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/margaret-atwood-joins-writers-condemning-russian-invasion-of-ukraine|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310160354/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/margaret-atwood-joins-writers-condemning-russian-invasion-of-ukraine|url-status=live|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=March 10, 2022}} She continues to publish information about the war in Ukraine on the social network.{{Cite web|title=Margaret e. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) | Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/margaretatwood|access-date=March 10, 2022|publisher=Twitter|language=en|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310155002/https://twitter.com/margaretatwood|url-status=live }}

Atwood's novel Surfacing (1972) was adapted into a 1981 film of the same name written by Bernard Gordon and directed by Claude Jutra.{{Cite web|website=Reeling Back|url=http://reelingback.com/articles/lost_in_the_north_woods|title=Lost in the north woods: Film adaptation lacks direction|last=Walsh|first=Michael|date=November 18, 2014|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202211439/http://reelingback.com/articles/lost_in_the_north_woods|url-status=live}} It received poor reviews; one reviewer wrote that it made "little attempt to find cinematic equivalents for the admittedly difficult subjective and poetic dimensions of the novel."{{Cite book|title=Claude Jutra : filmmaker|last=Jim|first=Leach|date=1999|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0773567917|location=Montreal|page=214|oclc=239885644}}

Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985) has been adapted several times. A 1990 film, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, received mixed reviews.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-film.html|title=Review/Film; Handmaid's Tale, Adapted From Atwood Novel|work=The New York Times|first=Janet|last=Maslin|date=March 7, 1990|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=May 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511033944/http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-film.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-forgotten-handmaids-tale/388514/|title=The Forgotten Handmaid's Tale|last=Gilbert|first=Sophie|work=The Atlantic|date=March 24, 2015|access-date=May 11, 2018|archive-date=July 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712123211/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-forgotten-handmaids-tale/388514/|url-status=live}} A musical adaptation resulted in the 2000 opera, written by Poul Ruders, with a libretto by Paul Bentley. It premiered at the Royal Danish Opera in 2000, and was staged in 2003 at London's English National Opera and the Minnesota Opera.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-handmaids-tale-the-opera|title=Revisiting The Handmaid's Tale, the Opera|last=Platt|first=Russell|date=May 28, 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=May 11, 2018|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511215149/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-handmaids-tale-the-opera|url-status=live}} Boston Lyric Opera mounted a production in May 2019, described by The New York Times as "a triumph".{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/arts/music/handmaids-tale-boston-lyric-opera-review.html|title=Review: 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is a Brutal Triumph as Opera|last=Allen|first=David|date=May 10, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 11, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511142527/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/arts/music/handmaids-tale-boston-lyric-opera-review.html|url-status=live}} A television series by Bruce Miller began airing on the streaming service Hulu in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hulu.com/press/crew/bruce-miller/|title=Bruce Miller – Hulu Press Site|website=Hulu|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100113/https://www.hulu.com/press/crew/bruce-miller/|url-status=live}} The first season of the show earned eight Emmys in 2017, including Outstanding Drama Series. Season two premiered on April 25, 2018, and it was announced on May 2, 2018, that Hulu had renewed the series for a third season.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-handmaids-tale-renewed-hulu-season-3-1202794440/|title=The Handmaid's Tale Renewed for Season 3 at Hulu|last=Holloway|first=Daniel|date=May 2, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=May 11, 2018|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327235050/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-handmaids-tale-renewed-hulu-season-3-1202794440/|url-status=live}} Atwood appears in a cameo in the first episode as one of the Aunts at the Red Center.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thisisinsider.com/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-cameo-pilot-2017-4|title=Margaret Atwood has a small but violent cameo in 'The Handmaid's Tale' premiere|first=Kim|last=Renfro|work=Insider|date=April 27, 2017|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129120050/http://www.thisisinsider.com/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-cameo-pilot-2017-4|url-status=live}} In 2019, a graphic novel ({{ISBN|9780224101936}}) based on the book and with the same title was published by Renée Nault.

In 2003, six of Atwood's short stories were adapted by Shaftesbury Films for the anthology television series The Atwood Stories."Atwood at large". The Globe and Mail, February 15, 2003.

Atwood's 2008 Massey Lectures were adapted into the documentary Payback (2012), by director Jennifer Baichwal.{{cite web|last=Canada|year=2012|website=National Film Board of Canada|title=Payback|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/payback/|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100348/https://www.nfb.ca/film/payback/|url-status=live}} Commentary by Atwood and others such as economist Raj Patel, ecologist William Reese, and religious scholar Karen Armstrong, are woven into various stories that explore the concepts of debt and payback, including an Armenian blood feud, agricultural working conditions, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/movies/payback-documentary-based-on-margaret-atwoods-book.html|title=Why the Debt That Burdens the Modern World Is About More Than Money|first=A. O.|last=Scott|date=April 24, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 11, 2018|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511222449/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/movies/payback-documentary-based-on-margaret-atwoods-book.html|url-status=live}}

The novel Alias Grace (1996) was adapted into a six-part 2017 miniseries directed by Mary Harron and adapted by Sarah Polley. It premiered on CBC on September 25, 2017, and the full series was released on Netflix on November 3, 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/cbc-netflix-to-screen-miniseries-based-on-margaret-atwood-novel-alias-grace/article30537694/|title=CBC, Netflix to screen miniseries based on Margaret Atwood novel Alias Grace|date=June 21, 2016|work=The Globe and Mail|agency=The Canadian Press|access-date=February 20, 2018|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416121850/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/cbc-netflix-to-screen-miniseries-based-on-margaret-atwood-novel-alias-grace/article30537694/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-debuts-first-look-images-from-new-miniseries-based-on-margaret-atwood-novel-alias-grace|title=Netflix Debuts First Look Images from New Miniseries based on Margaret Atwood novel, Alias Grace|website=Netflix Media Center|access-date=May 19, 2017|archive-date=December 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213183859/https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-debuts-first-look-images-from-new-miniseries-based-on-margaret-atwood-novel-alias-grace|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ubH90kigo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211115/M_ubH90kigo| archive-date=November 15, 2021| url-status=live|title=Alias Grace Teaser Netflix| date=July 21, 2017|via=YouTube|access-date=July 24, 2017}}{{cbignore}} Atwood makes a cameo in the fourth episode of the series as a disapproving churchgoer.{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/tv/2017/11/06/margaret-atwood-alias-grace-cameo/|title=Margaret Atwood had a cameo in Alias Grace|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|first=Dana|last=Schwartz|date=November 6, 2017|access-date=March 10, 2018|archive-date=March 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311021346/http://ew.com/tv/2017/11/06/margaret-atwood-alias-grace-cameo/|url-status=dead}}

In the Wake of the Flood (released in October 2010), a documentary film by the Canadian director Ron Mann, followed Atwood on the unusual book tour for her novel The Year of the Flood (2009). During this innovative book tour, Atwood created a theatrical version of her novel, with performers borrowed from the local areas she was visiting. The documentary is described as "a fly-on-the-wall film vérité".{{cite web|url=http://yearoftheflood.com/ca/tour/wake-of-the-flood|title=In the Wake of the Flood|website=The Year of the Flood|access-date=March 30, 2011|archive-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830032320/http://yearoftheflood.com/ca/tour/wake-of-the-flood|url-status=dead}}

Atwood's children's book Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011) was adapted into the children's television series The Wide World of Wandering Wenda, broadcast on CBC beginning in the spring of 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/atwood-wandering-wenda-1.3574887|title=Alliterative adventures ahead as Atwood's Wandering Wenda set for TV|publisher=CBC News|date=May 10, 2016|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=March 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313071747/http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/atwood-wandering-wenda-1.3574887|url-status=live}} Aimed at early readers, the animated series follows Wenda and her friends as they navigate different adventures using words, sounds, and language.

Director Darren Aronofsky had been slated to direct an adaptation of the MaddAddam trilogy for HBO, but it was revealed in October 2016 that HBO had dropped the plan from its schedule. In January 2018, it was announced that Paramount Television and Anonymous Content had bought the rights to the trilogy and would be producing it without Aronofsky.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/margaret-atwood-maddaddam-trilogy-series-paramount-tv-anonymous-content-1202675464/|title=Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy Series Adaptation in Works From Anonymous Content, Paramount TV|last=Otterson|first=Joe|date=January 24, 2018|work=Variety|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035800/https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/margaret-atwood-maddaddam-trilogy-series-paramount-tv-anonymous-content-1202675464/|url-status=live}}

Atwood holds numerous honorary degrees from various institutions, including The Sorbonne, NUI Galway as well as Oxford and Cambridge universities.{{Cite news|url=http://margaretatwood.ca/awards-recognitions/|title=Awards & Recognitions|website=margaretatwood.ca|access-date=January 24, 2017|archive-date=December 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226143605/https://margaretatwood.ca/awards-recognitions/|url-status=live}}

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• Governor General's Award, 1966, 1985{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/margaret-atwood.html|title=CBC books page|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=June 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629172947/http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/margaret-atwood.html|url-status=live}}
• Toronto Book Awards, 1977, 1989
• Companion of the Order of Canada, 1981{{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=53|access-date=May 24, 2010}}
• Guggenheim fellowship, 1981{{cite web|title=How Atwood became a writer|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/11.08/08-atwood.html|work=Harvard University Gazette|access-date=September 19, 2010|date=November 8, 2001|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629115029/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/11.08/08-atwood.html|archive-date=June 29, 2011}}
• Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, 1986{{cite web|url=http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/winners-by-award/|title=LA Times Book Prize winners|work=Los Angeles Times|year=2012|access-date=April 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405013402/http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/previous-winners/winners-by-award/|archive-date=April 5, 2013}}
• American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year, 1987{{cite web| title = Humanists of the Year list| url = http://americanhumanist.org/AHA/Humanists_of_the_Year| publisher = American Humanist Association| access-date = October 16, 2013| archive-date = November 28, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151128162005/http://americanhumanist.org/aha/humanists_of_the_year| url-status = dead }}
• Nebula Award, 1986 and Prometheus Award, 1987 and 2020 nominations, both science fiction awards.{{cite web|url=http://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/margaret-atwood/|title=Margaret Atwood|publisher=Nebula Awards|access-date=January 24, 2016|archive-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929230703/https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/margaret-atwood/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://lfs.org/novel_nominees.shtml|title=Prometheus Award for Best Novel – Nominees|publisher=Libertarian Future Society|access-date=January 24, 2016|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308054238/http://lfs.org/novel_nominees.shtml|url-status=live}}
• Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, 1987{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/01/24/arthur_c_clarke_move_raises_question_of_scifi_author_equality.html|title=Arthur C. Clarke move raises questions of sci-fi author equality|first=Dianne|last=Rinehart|work=Toronto Star|date=January 24, 2014|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=September 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925085324/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2014/01/24/arthur_c_clarke_move_raises_question_of_scifi_author_equality.html|url-status=live}}
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988{{cite web| title = Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A| url = http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf| publisher = American Academy of Arts and Sciences| access-date = April 27, 2011| archive-date = October 5, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181005182401/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf| url-status = live }}
• Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1989
• Outstanding Canadian Award – Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, 1989{{cite web|url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0030004F&R=DC-TSPA_0030004F&searchPageType=vrl|title=Toronto Public Library Archives|publisher=Toronto Public Library|access-date=September 18, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925085305/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0030004F&R=DC-TSPA_0030004F&searchPageType=vrl|url-status=live}}
• Order of Ontario, 1990{{cite web|url=https://www.ontario.ca/page/order-ontario|title=The Order of Ontario|publisher=Government of Ontario|access-date=July 16, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=October 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025045127/https://www.ontario.ca/page/order-ontario/ }}
• Trillium Book Award, 1991, 1993, 1995{{cite web|url=http://www.omdc.on.ca/book/trillium_book_award/trillium_book_award_winners.htm|title=Trillium Book Award Winners|publisher=Ontario Media Development Corporation|year=2013|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029005007/http://www.omdc.on.ca/Book/Trillium_Book_Award/Trillium_Book_Award_Winners.htm|archive-date=October 29, 2013|url-status=dead}}
• Giller Prize, 1996
• Government of France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1994{{cite web|url=http://margaretatwood.ca/awards-recognitions/|title=Awards and Recognitions|publisher=Margaret Atwood|access-date=January 24, 2016|archive-date=December 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226143605/https://margaretatwood.ca/awards-recognitions/|url-status=live}}
• Helmerich Award, 1999, by the Tulsa Library Trust.{{cite web|url=http://helmerichaward.org/winners/1999_margaret-atwood.php|title=Helmerich Award page|publisher=Tulsa Library Trust|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=September 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925085304/http://helmerichaward.org/winners/1999_margaret-atwood.php|url-status=live}}
• Booker Prize, 2000, 2019{{cite web|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/margaret-atwood|title=Booker Prize page|publisher=Booker Prize Foundation|access-date=April 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225215742/http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/margaret-atwood|archive-date=December 25, 2013}}
• Hammett Prize, 2000
• Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, 2007{{cite web|title=Kenyon Review for Literary Achievement|url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/kenyon-review-award-for-literary-achievement/|website=KenyonReview.org|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=January 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109090416/https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/kenyon-review-award-for-literary-achievement/|url-status=live}}
• Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 2008{{cite web|url=http://www.fpa.es/en/prince-of-asturias-awards/awards/2008-margaret-atwood.html|title=FPA Award page|publisher=Fundación Príncipe de Asturias|year=2008|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414232357/http://www.fpa.es/en/prince-of-asturias-awards/awards/2008-margaret-atwood.html|url-status=live}}
• Fellow Royal Society of Literature, 2010
• Nelly Sachs Prize, Germany, 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/kulturbuero/kulturpreise/nellysachspreis/|title=Nelly Sachs Prize page|publisher=City of Dortmund|year=2013|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=April 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415053407/http://www.dortmund.de/de/freizeit_und_kultur/kulturbuero/kulturpreise/nellysachspreis/|url-status=live}}
• Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.dandavidprize.org/media-events/in-the-news/603-margaret-atwood-talks-about-nobel-prizewinner-alice-munro|title=Margaret Atwood Talks About Nobel Prizewinner Alice Munro|publisher=Dan David Foundation|date=December 11, 2013|access-date=April 13, 2014|archive-date=April 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414232550/http://www.dandavidprize.org/media-events/in-the-news/603-margaret-atwood-talks-about-nobel-prizewinner-alice-munro|url-status=live}}
• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada, 2012{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/diamond-jubilee-gala-toasts-exceptional-canadians-1.1226414| title=Diamond Jubilee Gala toasts exceptional Canadians| date=June 18, 2012| publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| access-date=June 19, 2012| archive-date=June 19, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619053044/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/06/18/jubilee-gala-toronto.html| url-status=live}}
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Innovator's Award", 2012{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-los-angeles-times-book-prize-winners-20130419,0,6759894.story|title=Announcing the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Staff writer|date=April 19, 2013|access-date=April 21, 2013|author-link=Staff writer|archive-date=April 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421011237/http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-los-angeles-times-book-prize-winners-20130419,0,6759894.story|url-status=live }}
• Royalty Society of Literature's "Companions of Literature" award, 2012{{cite web | url=https://rsliterature.org/companions-of-literature/ | title=Companions of Literature - Royal Society of Literature | date=September 2, 2023 }}
• Audie Award for Fiction, 2013
• Gold medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2015{{cite web|url= http://www.rcgs.org/awards/gold_medal/winner_gold2015.asp|title= Gold Medal 2015 Recipients – Dr. Jacob Verhoef, Graeme Gibson and Margaret Atwood|publisher= Royal Canadian Geographical Society|access-date= November 21, 2015|archive-date= February 23, 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190223184904/http://www.rcgs.org/awards/gold_medal/winner_gold2015.asp|url-status= dead}}
• Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, 2015
• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2016{{cite web|url=http://www.svp.org.mk/archives/6123?lang=en|title=Margaret Atwood is laureate of the 'Golden Wreath' Award for 2016|date=March 21, 2016|work=Struga Poetry Evenings|access-date=March 23, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405222803/http://www.svp.org.mk/archives/6123?lang=en|archive-date=April 5, 2016}}
• Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016
• PEN Pinter Prize, 2016
• Tähtivaeltaja Award 2016, 2020
• Franz Kafka Prize, Czech Republic, 2017{{cite web|url=http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/uploads/docs/2017/05/Cena%20Franze%20Kafky%202017%20TZ%20ENG.pdf|title=The Franz Kafka International Literary Prize 2017|date=May 29, 2017|access-date=June 1, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702113145/http://franzkafka-soc.cz/uploads/docs/2017/05/Cena%20Franze%20Kafky%202017%20TZ%20ENG.pdf|archive-date=July 2, 2017 }}
• St. Louis Literary Award, 2017
• Aurora Awards, 2017
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Germany, 2017{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/margaret-atwood-erhaelt-friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels-a-1151911.html|title=Ehrung des Buchhandels: Margaret Atwood erhält Friedenspreis|last=Germany|first=Spiegel Online Hamburg|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=June 13, 2017|access-date=June 13, 2017|archive-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614084323/http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/margaret-atwood-erhaelt-friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels-a-1151911.html|url-status=live}}
• Lorne Pierce Medal, 2018
• Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/767769/DSO_NY19_CH___BE_HMTQ.pdf|title=Official – Sensitive Year 2019 Diplomatic and Overseas List Order of the Companions of Honour|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190114225012/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/767769/DSO_NY19_CH___BE_HMTQ.pdf|archive-date=January 14, 2019|access-date=January 14, 2019}}
• Goodreads Choice Awards, 2013,{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-fiction-books-2013 | title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Science Fiction! }} 2019,{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/12/10/margaret-atwood-stephen-king-rick-riordan-among-goodreads-winners/4354026002/|title=Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Rick Riordan among winners of Goodreads' best books of 2019|first=Mary|last=Cadden|work=USA Today|date=December 10, 2019|access-date=December 22, 2023|archive-date=December 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222090642/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2019/12/10/margaret-atwood-stephen-king-rick-riordan-among-goodreads-winners/4354026002/|url-status=live}} 2020{{cite web | url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-poetry-books-2020 | title=Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Poetry! }}
• The Center for Fiction, 2019{{cite web|url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/center-for-fiction-prizes-deshawn-wilson-atwood/|title=De'Shawn Charles Wilson, Margaret Atwood Win Prizes at Center for Fiction|work= Kirkus Reviews|access-date= December 22, 2023|archive-date= December 22, 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231222233944/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/center-for-fiction-prizes-deshawn-wilson-atwood/|url-status=live}}
• Galaxy Award, China, 2019
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-awarded-2020-dayton-literary-peace-prize-1.5723163|title=Margaret Atwood awarded 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize|last=Sewell|first=Dan|date=September 14, 2020|access-date=September 14, 2020|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915060510/https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-awarded-2020-dayton-literary-peace-prize-1.5723163|url-status=live }}
• British Book Awards, 2020
• Kurd Laßwitz Award, 2020
• Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020
• British Academy President's Medal, 2020{{cite web|title=The President's Medal|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/british-academy-presidents-medal/|website=The British Academy|access-date=May 27, 2021|language=en|archive-date=May 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527094619/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/british-academy-presidents-medal/|url-status=live }}
• Emerson-Thoreau Medal (2020)
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany{{cite web|url=https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2021/2021-06-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html|title=Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 155, Number 26: Government House|date=June 26, 2021|publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=July 16, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=July 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701193944/https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2021/2021-06-26/html/gh-rg-eng.html }}
• Hitchens Prize (2022){{cite web|last1=Atwood|first1=Margaret|title=Your Feelings Are No Excuse|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/04/margaret-atwood-hitchens-prize-speech/629443/|website=The Atlantic|date=April 2022|access-date=April 3, 2022|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403093705/https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/04/margaret-atwood-hitchens-prize-speech/629443/|url-status=live }}
• Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (2024)

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; Honorary degrees

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• Trent University, 1973{{cite web|url=https://trentu.ca/convocation/honorarydegree_past.php|title=Trent University, Past Honorary Degree Recipients|access-date=July 8, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614173534/http://trentu.ca/convocation/honorarydegree_past.php|archive-date=June 14, 2016 }} Retrieved on July 8, 2016.
• Queen's University, 1974{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees - Queen's Encyclopedia|url=http://queensu.ca/encyclopedia/h/honorary-degrees|website=www.queensu.ca|access-date=July 8, 2016|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914034910/http://queensu.ca/encyclopedia/h/honorary-degrees|url-status=live }}
• Concordia University, 1979[https://www.concordia.ca/offices/archives/honorary-degree-recipients/1979/12/margaret-atwood.html "Concordia University, Honorary degree citation – Margaret Atwood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228065611/http://www.concordia.ca/offices/archives/honorary-degree-recipients/1979/12/margaret-atwood.html|date=December 28, 2017 }}. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
• Smith College, 1982{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees|url=https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history/honorary-degrees|website=Smith College|language=en|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=August 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814003123/https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/smith-history/honorary-degrees|url-status=live }}
• University of Toronto, 1983{{cite web|title=Margaret Atwood|url=http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood|website=University of Toronto Alumni|language=en|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=May 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513085158/http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood/|url-status=live }}
• University of Waterloo, 1985{{cite web|title=Honorary degrees committee - honorary degrees granted 1980 - 1989|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat-general-counsel/committees-and-councils/honorary-degrees-committee/honorary-degrees-granted/1980-1989|website=Secretariat|language=en|date=May 22, 2012|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305070626/https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat-general-counsel/committees-and-councils/honorary-degrees-committee/honorary-degrees-granted/1980-1989|url-status=dead }}
• University of Guelph, 1985{{cite web|title=University of Guelph - Document Center|url=https://uoguelph.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2273?preview=2272|website=uoguelph.civicweb.net|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=December 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228065509/https://uoguelph.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2273?preview=2272|url-status=live }}
• Mount Holyoke College, 1985{{cite web|title=Archives & Special Collections - LITS|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/history/honorary_year|website=lits.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=September 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915032742/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/archives/history/honorary_year|url-status=dead }}
• Victoria College, 1987[http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood/ "Alumni Portraits – Margaret Atwood"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513085158/http://alumni.utoronto.ca/portrait/margaret-atwood/|date=May 13, 2016 }}. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
• Université de Montréal, 1991{{cite web|title=LISTE DES DOCTORATS HONORIFIQUES 1920-2013|url=http://collation.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/collations_des_grades/documents/DHC/Listes/Liste_alpha_dhc.pdf|website=collation.umontreal.ca|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=May 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505152145/http://collation.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/collations_des_grades/documents/DHC/Listes/Liste_alpha_dhc.pdf|url-status=live }}
• University of Leeds, 1994
• McMaster University, 1996{{cite web|title=McMaster University Honorary Degree Recipients (Chronological) 1892-Present|url=http://www.mcmaster.ca/univsec/reports_lists/S_HD_Recipients.pdf|website=www.mcmaster.ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202030846/http://www.mcmaster.ca/univsec/reports_lists/S_HD_Recipients.pdf|archive-date=February 2, 2016}}
• Lakehead University, 1998{{cite web|title=Past Honorary Degree Recipients|url=https://www.lakeheadu.ca/current-students/graduation/past-honorary-degree-recipients|website=www.lakeheadu.ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730135043/https://www.lakeheadu.ca/current-students/graduation/past-honorary-degree-recipients|archive-date=July 30, 2016}}
• University of Oxford, 1998{{cite web|title=University honours nine at Encaenia|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/020798/news/story_1.htm|website=www.ox.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719121038/https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/020798/news/story_1.htm|archive-date=July 19, 2015}}
• Algoma University, 2001{{cite web|title=Criteria and Guidelines for Selection of Honorary Degree Recipients|url=https://www.algomau.ca/about/administration/senate/honourary-degrees/|website=www.algomau.ca|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911174739/https://www.algomau.ca/about/administration/senate/honourary-degrees/|archive-date=September 11, 2016}}
• University of Cambridge, 2001
• Dartmouth College, 2004{{cite web|title=Dartmouth Honorary Degrees 2004:Margaret Atwood|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/05/04b.html|website=www.dartmouth.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405191701/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2004/05/04b.html|archive-date=April 5, 2016}}
• Harvard University, 2004{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees|url=http://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/commencement/honorary-degrees|website=Harvard University|language=en|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=October 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015152434/https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/commencement/honorary-degrees|url-status=dead }}
• Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005{{cite web|last1=Erard|first1=Frederic|title=Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - Les docteurs Honoris Causa de la Sorbonne Nouvelle|url=http://www.univ-paris3.fr/les-docteurs-honoris-causa-de-la-sorbonne-nouvelle--90298.kjsp|website=www.univ-paris3.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=December 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228065612/http://www.univ-paris3.fr/les-docteurs-honoris-causa-de-la-sorbonne-nouvelle--90298.kjsp|url-status=live }}
• National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011Walsh, Caroline. [https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0618/1224299108477.html "Margaret Atwood to be honoured by NUI Galway"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024043715/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0618/1224299108477.html|date=October 24, 2012 }}. The Irish Times. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
• Ryerson University, 2012{{cite web|title=Ryerson University : Ryerson Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships|url=http://www.ryerson.ca/calendar/2014-2015/pg1511.html|website=www.ryerson.ca|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=April 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416222943/http://www.ryerson.ca/calendar/2014-2015/pg1511.html|url-status=live }}
• Royal Military College of Canada (LLD), November 16, 2012{{cite web|url=https://www.rmcc-cmrc.ca/en/royal-military-college-canada-honorary-degree-recipients|title=Royal Military College of Canada Honorary Degree Recipients|first=Pete|last=Bennett|date=July 19, 2016|website=rmcc-cmrc.ca|access-date=May 30, 2017|archive-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804170009/http://www.rmcc-cmrc.ca/en/royal-military-college-canada-honorary-degree-recipients|url-status=live}}
• University of Athens, 2013{{cite web|title=Athens University Honors Margaret Atwood|url=http://www.newgreektv.com/news-in-english-for-greeks/entertainment/item/2084-athens-university-honors-margaret-atwood|website=www.newgreektv.com|date=December 10, 2013|language=en-gb|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914060847/http://www.newgreektv.com/news-in-english-for-greeks/entertainment/item/2084-athens-university-honors-margaret-atwood|url-status=live }}
• University of Edinburgh, 2014{{cite web|title=Honorary graduates|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/annual-review/1314/honorary|website=The University of Edinburgh|language=en|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=September 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916003852/http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/annual-review/1314/honorary|url-status=live }}
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2017
• University of St Andrews, 2023{{cite web

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; Novels

• The Edible Woman (1969)
• Surfacing (1972)
• Lady Oracle (1976)
• Life Before Man (1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
• Bodily Harm (1981)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize)
• Cat's Eye (1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize)
• The Robber Bride (1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award)
• Alias Grace (1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction)
• The Blind Assassin (2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
• Oryx and Crake (2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
• The Penelopiad (2005, nominated for the 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and longlisted for the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award)
• The Year of the Flood (2009, Oryx and Crake companion, longlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award)
• MaddAddam (2013) (Third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy)
• Scribbler Moon (written in 2014 as part of the Future Library project; will remain unpublished until 2114)
• The Heart Goes Last (2015) (Winner of the 2015 Red Tentacle award)
• Hag-Seed (2016) (Longlisted for the 2017 Women Prize for Fiction)
• The Testaments (2019, joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize)[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/atwood-handmaids-sequel-1.4923605 "Margaret Atwood announces sequel to The Handmaid's Tale"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912192354/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/atwood-handmaids-sequel-1.4923605|date=September 12, 2019 }}. CBC News, November 28, 2018.

;Short fiction collections

• Dancing Girls (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction)
• Murder in the Dark (1983)
• Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
• Wilderness Tips (1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
• Good Bones (1992)
• Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
• The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
• The Tent (2006)
• Moral Disorder (2006)
• Stone Mattress (2014)
• Old Babes in the Wood (2023)

;Poetry collections

• Double Persephone (1961)
• The Circle Game (1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award)
• 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 the poem Song of the Worms
• Selected Poems (1976)
• Two-Headed Poems (1978)
• True Stories (1981)
• Snake Poems (1983){{cite book| last = Margaret| first = Atwood| url = http://www.biblio.com/margaret-atwood/snake-poems~56624661~title| title = Snake Poems by Margaret Atwood| publisher = Biblio.com| access-date = August 27, 2011| archive-date = April 1, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120401132934/http://www.biblio.com/margaret-atwood/snake-poems~56624661~title| url-status = live }}
• Interlunar (1984)
• Selected Poems 1966–1984 (Canada)
• Selected Poems II: 1976–1986 (US)
• Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart (1995)
• Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995 (UK,1998)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110903075301/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16789 "You Begin."] (1978) – as recited by Margaret Atwood; included in all three most recent editions of her "Selected Poems" as listed above (US, CA, UK)
• The Door (2007)
• Dearly (2020){{cite book| last = Margaret| first = Atwood| url = https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1119961/dearly/9781784743895.html| title = Dearly by Margaret Atwood| publisher = Chatto&Windus| access-date = November 8, 2020| archive-date = August 13, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210813013051/https://penguin.co.uk/books/1119961/dearly/9781784743895.html| url-status = dead }}
• Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 (2024)

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;E-books

• I'm Starved For You: Positron, Episode One (2012)
• Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two (2012)
• Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three (2013)
• The Heart Goes Last: Positron, Episode Four (2013)
• The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home (2013) (with Naomi Alderman){{Cite web|last=Schinsky|first=Rebecca Joine|date=October 31, 2012|title="THE HAPPY ZOMBIE SUNRISE HOME" — AN EXCERPT OF MARGARET ATWOOD'S EXCLUSIVE WATTPAD STORY|url=https://bookriot.com/the-happy-zombie-sunrise-home-an-excerpt-of-margaret-atwoods-exclusive-wattpad-story/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406232417/https://bookriot.com/the-happy-zombie-sunrise-home-an-excerpt-of-margaret-atwoods-exclusive-wattpad-story/|archive-date=April 6, 2021|access-date=April 6, 2021|website=Book Riot}}
• My Evil Mother (2022)
• Cut and Thirst (2024)

;Anthologies edited

• The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
• The Canlit Foodbook (1987)
• The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
• The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel)
• The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1995)

; Children's books

• Up in the Tree (1978)
• Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
• For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
• Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
• Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
• Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
• Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011);http://www.quillandquire.com/books_young/review.cfm?review_id=7476 Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119102027/http://www.quillandquire.com/books_young/review.cfm?review_id=7476|date=January 19, 2012 }}. Quill & Quire, December 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012. inspired a cartoon series called Wandering Wenda in 2016.

; Non-fiction

• Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• 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 (1995)
• Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
• Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
• Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005 (2005)
• Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
• In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)
• On Writers and Writing (2015)
• Burning Questions: Essays & Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 (2022)
• Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts (2025)https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/chatto-windus-to-publish-margaret-atwoods-landmark-memoir-in-november-2025 Chatto & Windus to publish Margaret Atwood's 'landmark' memoir in November 2025

;Drawings

• Kanadian Kultchur Komix featuring "Survivalwoman" in This Magazine under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975–1980
• Others appear on her website.

;Comics

• Angel Catbird (#1–3), with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain (2016)
• War Bears (#1–3), with Ken Steacy (2018)

; Television scripts

• The Servant Girl (1974)
• Snowbird (1981)Rick Groen, "Snowbird doesn't fly so much as plummet". The Globe and Mail, February 7, 1981.
• Heaven on Earth (1987)

; Libretti

• The Trumpets of Summer{{Broken anchor|date=May 30, 2024|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=John Beckwith (composer)#The Trumpets of Summer (1964)|reason= The anchor (The Trumpets of Summer (1964)) has been deleted.}} (1964) (with composer John Beckwith)
• Frankenstein Monster Song (2004, with rock band One Ring Zero){{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZp-Ip3fMJo| title = One Ring Zero with Margaret Atwood in Toronto| via = YouTube| date = August 26, 2006| access-date = August 27, 2011| archive-date = July 27, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130727214819/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZp-Ip3fMJo| url-status = live }}
• "Pauline", a chamber opera in two acts, with composer Tobin Stokes for City Opera Vancouver (2014)

;Audio recordings

• The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood (1977)
• Margaret Atwood Reads "Unearthing Suite" (1985)
• Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems (2005)
• Margaret Atwood as herself in Zombies, Run, as a surviving radio operator in themes.

;Filmography

• She is credited as herself in all 26 episodes of the Breakthrough Entertainment's children's show The Wide World of Wandering Wenda in which she wears funny hats to match the various themes (2017)

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• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers

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• {{Cite book|last=Bauch|first=Marc|title=Canadian Self-perception and Self-representation in English-Canadian Drama After 1967|year=2012|publisher=WiKu-Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Stein|location=Köln, Germany|isbn=978-3-86553-407-1}}
• {{Cite book|last=Carrington|first=Ildikó de Papp|year=1986|title=Margaret Atwood and Her Works|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto, Ontario|isbn=978-0-920763-25-4}}
• {{Cite book|last=Clements|first=Pam|year=2011|chapter=Margaret Atwood and Chaucer: Truth and Lies|editor1-last=Utz|editor1-first=Richard|editor2-last=Emery|editor2-first=Elizabeth|title=Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin|url=http://works.bepress.com/richard_utz/86/|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011203055/http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=richard_utz|archive-date=October 11, 2012|url-status=dead|location=Kalamazoo, MI|publisher=Studies in Medievalism|pages=39–41|oclc=775455314}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Hengen|first1=Shannon|last2=Thomson|first2=Ashley|title=Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988–2005|date=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=978-0-8108-6668-3}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Miceli|first=Barbara|date=December 2019|title=Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last: Panopticism, Discipline, Society, and Ustopia|url=https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/137/margaret-atwoods-the-heart-goes-last-panopticism-discipline-society-and-ustopia|journal=Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory|volume=5|issue=2|pages=79–90|doi=10.24193/mjcst.2019.8.05|doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite journal|last=Miceli|first=Barbara|date=2018|title=Religion, Gender Inequality, and Surrogate Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'|editor1-last=Carosso|editor1-first=Andrea|editor2-last=Zehelein|editor2-first=Eva-Sabine|journal=CoSMo (Comparative Studies in Modernism)|issue=12: Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition|pages=95–108|doi=10.13135/2281-6658/2580|issn=2281-6658|oclc=1005824911}}
• {{Cite book|last=Nischik|first=Reingard M.|year=2009|title=Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood|location=Ottawa|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|isbn=978-0-7766-0724-5|oclc=471042771}}
• {{Cite book|last=Rigney|first=Barbara Hill|title=Margaret Atwood|date=1987|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwood0000rign|url-access=registration|location=Totowa, NJ|publisher=Barnes & Noble|isbn=978-0-389-20742-9|oclc=15549552}}
• {{Cite book|last=Rosenberg|first=Jerome H.|year=1984|title=Margaret Atwood|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwood00jero|url-access=registration|location=Boston|publisher=Twayne|isbn=978-0-8057-6586-1}}
• {{Cite book|last1=Sherrill|first1=Grace|last2=Weir|first2=Lorraine|year=1983|title=Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretatwoodla0000unse|url-access=registration|location=Vancouver, BC|publisher=University of British Columbia Press|isbn=978-0-7748-0170-6|oclc=260126246}}
• {{Cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Rosemary|author-link=Rosemary Sullivan|year=1998|title=The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out|url=https://archive.org/details/redshoesmargaret0000sull|url-access=registration|location=Toronto|publisher=HarperFlamingoCanada|isbn=978-0-00-255423-7|oclc=924742585}}
• {{Cite book|last=Weir|first=Lorraine|year=1981|chapter=Meridians of Perception: A Reading of The Journals of Susanna Moodie|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/artofmargaretatw0000davi/page/69|editor-last1=Davidson|editor-first1=Arnold E.|editor-last2=Davidson|editor-first2=Cathy N.|editor-link2=Cathy N. Davidson|title=The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism|location=Toronto|publisher=Anansi|pages=[https://archive.org/details/artofmargaretatw0000davi/page/69 69–79]|isbn=978-0-88784-080-7}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Wrethed|first1=Joakim|year=2015|title='I Am a Place': Aletheia as Aesthetic and Political Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing|journal=Journal of Aesthetics & Culture|volume=7|issue=1|page=28020|doi=10.3402/jac.v7.28020|doi-access=free}}

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• {{Official website}}
• [https://margaretatwood.substack.com/ In the Writing Burrow]—Margaret Atwood Substack
• [http://atwoodsociety.org/ Margaret Atwood Society official website]
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• [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,943485,00.html Profile of Margaret Atwood] by The Guardian
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/09/090914_forum_130909.shtml Interview of Margaret Atwood] by The Forum on the BBC World Service
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