Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.
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To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.
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| Birth: | 18th November, 1939 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
About
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.
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