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Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She and her family relocated to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945, and to Toronto, Canada, in 1946. She spent part of every year until she was eleven in the northern Ontario wilderness, where her father worked as an entomologist (insect scientist). Her writing was one among the many things she liked doing in her "bush" time, when she wasn't in school. Atwood has garnered over fifty-five accolades, including two Governor General's Awards, the first in 1966 for The Circle Game, her first major collection of poetry, and the second in 1985 for The Handmaid's Tale, which was adapted into a film.

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