Castellano

República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Educación
U.E. “Juan Jacobo Rousseau”
Valencia, Edo. Carabobo









Profesores: Integrantes:
-Ludexi Brito -MelanieCorrea
-Eduardo Páez -Jessica Basso
-Victoria Ojeda
-Andrea Montaño
-Juliana Sisco

Valencia, 03 de marzo de 2015
CONTEXTO HISTORICO

Medalla E. J. Pratt (1961) por su libro de poemas Double Persephone
Governor General's Award, por The Circle Game (1966)
Toronto Book Award, por Lady Oracle (1977)Canadian Booksellers Award, por Lady Oracle (1977)
Toronto Book Award, por Dancing Girls (1977)
Canadian Booksellers Award, por Dancing Girls (1977)
Periodical Distributors of Canada Short Fiction Award, por Dancing Girls (1977)
Periodical Distributors of Canada por Bluebeard’s Egg (1983)
Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters Book of the Year Award, por Bluebeard’s Egg (1983)
GovernorGeneral's Award, por The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Los Angeles Times Prize, por The Handmaid’s Tale
Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, por The Handmaid’s Tale
Commonwealth Literary Prize, por The Handmaid’s Tale
Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (25 de junio del 2008)




BIOGRAFIA

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, and grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and in Toronto.She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master’s degree from Radcliffe College.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1969), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996),and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her latest work is a book of short stories called Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014). Her newest novel, MaddAddam (2013), is the final volume in a three-book series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder(short fiction) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of non-fiction essays appeared in 2011. Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth was adapted for the screen in 2012. Ms. Atwood’s work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese,Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.
Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Born: 18 November, 1939. Ottawa, Ontario.

Education: Victoria College, University of Toronto, B.A., 1961; Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., A.M., 1962; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1962-63, 1965-67.

Places of Residence: Ottawa, 1939-45; Sault Ste. Marie, 1945;Toronto, 1946-61; Boston, Mass., 1961-63; Toronto, 1963-64; Vancouver, 1964-65; Boston, Mass.1965-67; Montreal, 1967-68; Edmonton, 1968-70; England (London), France, Italy, 1970-71; Toronto, 1971-73; Alliston, Ontario, 1973-80; Toronto, 1980-83; England, Germany, 1983-84; Alabama, 1985; Toronto, 1986-91; France, 1992; Toronto, 1992-present.

Employment: Lecturer in English, University of BritishColumbia, Vancouver, 1964-65; Instructor in English, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, 1967-68; University of Alberta, 1969-70; Assistant Professor of English, York University, Toronto, 1971-72; Writer-In-Residence, University of Toronto, 1972-73; M.F.A. Honorary Chair, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1985; Berg Chair, New York University, 1986; Writer-In-Residence, Macquarie...