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By: Alejanra Flores, Ivana Sorrosa , Ricardo Bohorquez.

MARGARET ATWOODS
Curious facts and details

Born in November 18,


1939
She was born in
Ontario,Canada
She lived in West Berlin
in 1984
She began writing at the
age of 5 (1943)

She has been awarded 2


Booker Prize awards, the
first one was in 2000 and
the second one in 2009.
She began to write “The
Handmaid’s Tale” during
the hell of the Berlin
wall (1984)

She wrote “The Handmaid's


Tale” between the years 1983
and 1986 the book was
published in 1986 and quickly
became a bestseller.
She earned a master’s degree
in English Literature from
Radcliffe College, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in 1962.
In 1969 she published her first
novel “The Edible Woman” - She wrote the novel “Alias

Grace” that was turned into
a Netflix miniseries in 2017
about a girl that was accused
of madness so the society
wanted to hang her.
She lived during the ages
of the Soviet Union in the
80s and the fall of the
Berlin wall in .9
November 1989.
Her most popular novel
Handmaid’s tale has been
turned into a lot of
cinematographic
representations in 1990
and 2017.

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