Margaret Atwood
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But it was only months later, after she and many others had been whittled down to a shortlist, that she learned her mentor would be Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood? The gimlet-eyed, curly-barneted Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace? Full Article at The Independent
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JESSIE NOMINATIONS The Arts Club's production of The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood's feminist take on the tale of Odysseus, leads nominations in the 30th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. D6 © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun Full Article at Vancouver Sun
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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Author Margaret Atwood attends the 2011 Rolex Mentor & Protege Arts Initiative at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on November 14, 2011 in New York City. View Photo »
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Economics is just the tip of the iceberg of a whole range of human behaviors that depend on our built-in programs that have to do with fairness and with equilibrium ... Fairness is a human and indeed a primate thing. But equilibrium is much bigger than that. So I wanted to write about fairness and equil...
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There were three winners in the first year: William Kurelek's O Toronto, Desmond Morton's Mayor Howland and Richard Wright's In the Middle of a Life. The awards have been issued annually ever since — the finalists and winner share the $15,000 prize pool... Full Article at Reading Matters
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Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood’s feminist take on the tale of Odysseus, led the field for nominations in the 30th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Atop the Arts Club’s nine nominations for The... Full Article at Vancouver Sun
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But if there's value in Payback's all-encompassing point of view, it's a weakness as well. Screenwriter-director Jennifer Baichwal pegs Atwood's thesis that debt is as philosophical of a condition as it is a fiscal one and that its contemporary context... Full Article at Broward-Palm Beach New Times
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In this book cover image released by Doubleday, "In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination," by Margaret Atwood, is shown. View Photo »
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It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion.
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Above: Montreal author/singer/poet/Zen Buddhist monk Leonard Cohen accepting the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature at the Campoamor Theater on October 21, 2011 in Oviedo, Spain. Fellow Canadian author Margaret Atwood was honored with the same... Full Article at About.com: Montreal
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It's the just-released Bringing Up The Bodies. Stellar reviews appear in the NYT, and LA Times. Novelist and intellectual Margaret Atwood, in The Guardian, noted that although this volume centers on the fall of Anne Boleyn, like its predecessor, it's... Full Article at Law Professor Blogs
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In his quest to retrieve Eurydice, he sings to the Gods and they agree under the condition that he may not look at Eurydice as they exit the Underworld. But of course Orpheus looks back at her and loses her forever. Margaret Atwood describes this tale... Full Article at BigNerds.com
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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