WRITER

Margaret Atwood

1939 - Today

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Atwood has received more than 10,024,906 page views. Her biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Margaret Atwood is the 467th most popular writer (down from 366th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Canada (up from 17th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Writer.

Margaret Atwood is most famous for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

Memorability Metrics

  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Atwood ranks 467 out of 7,302. Before her are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, Marguerite de Navarre, Saint-John Perse, John Galsworthy, and Eyvind Johnson. After her are Traudl Junge, Jules Michelet, Athenaeus, Louise de La Vallière, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Livius Andronicus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Margaret Atwood ranks 20. Before her are Harvey Keitel, Ada Yonath, Romano Prodi, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, and Karel Gott. After her are Ralph Lauren, Peter Grünberg, George Lazenby, Sonny Chiba, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and Jackie Stewart.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Margaret Atwood ranks 15 out of 1,622. Before her are Frank Gehry (1929), Erving Goffman (1922), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), Christopher Plummer (1929), and Marshall McLuhan (1911). After her are David Cronenberg (1943), James Naismith (1861), Glenn Gould (1932), Eric Berne (1910), Willard Boyle (1924), and Frederick Banting (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Margaret Atwood ranks 3. Before her are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), and Alice Munro (1931). After her are Saul Bellow (1915), Brian Tracy (1944), A. E. van Vogt (1912), David Morrell (1943), Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), and Louise Penny (1958).

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