![]() ![]() She was President of the Writers Union of Canada from 1981-1982 and President of PEN, Canada from 1984-1986. She has been a full-time writer since 1972, first teaching English, then holding a variety of academic posts and writer residencies. Her reviews and critical articles have appeared in various eminent magazines and she has also edited many books, including The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1983) and, with Robert Weaver, The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1986). ![]() She is Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts and books for children her works have been translated into over 30 languages. She studied at the University of Toronto, then took her Masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962. She moved, at the age of seven, to Toronto. She is the daughter of a forest entomologist, and spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec. ![]() Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939. ![]()
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