Poet Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood

Living place: Ottawa

Birthday: 18-11-1939 (85 years old)

Global rank: #32076

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Who is Poet Margaret Atwood?
A Canadian poet and novelist known, her bleak dark work, of the Handmaid Tale, she has shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times. Her other famous works include Cat's Eye, Oryx and the Water Chicken, and The Face.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She first published her poetry while studying at the University of Toronto Victoria University. She later taught at the University of British Columbia, Williams George Sir University in Montreal, and the University of Alberta.

Family life info

She was married to Jim Polk from 1968 to 1973. She and her husband, Graeme Gibson, welcomed their daughter, Eleanor, in 1976.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Margaret Atwood?
She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novels by Handmaid Tale.

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When was Poet Margaret Atwood born?
Margaret Atwood birthday 18-11-1939 (at the age of 85).
Where is Poet Margaret Atwood's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, of Canada. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Margaret Atwood's global rank is 32076 and whose rank is 64 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1939 and 18-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Margaret Atwood

  • Germany invades Poland; occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with U.S.S.R.
  • Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of territory in 1940 peace treaty.
  • World War II begins.

Birthday Margaret Atwood (18-11) in history

  • Day 18-11 year 1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.
  • Day 18-11 year 1883: Standard time began in the United States.
  • Day 18-11 year 1886: Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881–1885), died in New York at 56.
  • Day 18-11 year 1928: Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.
  • Day 18-11 year 1976: Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
  • Day 18-11 year 1978: Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot.
  • Day 18-11 year 2003: The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.
  • Day 18-11 year 2004: The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.
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