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Armed with an incredibly fertile imagination and a gift for storytelling, today&#;s honoree for Canada week is author, poet, teacher, literary critic and environmental activist, Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood

It would seem that this woman was a literary prodigy, as Ms. Atwood began putting pen to paper at the tender age of 6. Beginning her career as a poet, her first published work was Double Persephone, in Atwood had some success as a poet publishing four more collections of poetry before her first novel, The Edible Woman was published in

In this novel, Atwood explores the rejection of gender roles, loss of identity and alienation, themes that were ahead of their time when she originally wrote the book, in , but right in line with where the women&#;s movement was by the time it was published, four years later. It is for this reason that Atwood rejected the description of this book as feminist, preferring, instead to call it protofeminist. Ms. Atwood has a knac

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